Enhancing Evolution : : The Ethical Case for Making Better People /

Enhancing Evolution : : The Ethical Case for Making Better People / / John Harris.

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In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, go...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Harris, John,
MitwirkendeR:
Rayner, Steve,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:With a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Science Essentials
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Has Humankind a Future?
  • 2 Enhancement Is a Moral Duty
  • 3 What Enhancements Are and Why They Matter
  • 4 Immortality
  • 5 Reproductive Choice and the Democratic Presumption
  • 6 Disability and Super-Ability
  • 7 Perfection and the Blue Guitar
  • 8 Good and Bad Uses of Technology: Leon Kass and Jürgen Habermas
  • 9 Designer Children
  • 10 The Irredeemable Paradox of the Embryo
  • 11 The Obligation to Pursue and Participate in Research
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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