Bioscience and the good life / / Iain Brassington.
The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life that is healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us ''better'' or more moral people?...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, ethics & society.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Dedication --Acknowledgements --Chapter 1. The good of bioscience --Chapter 2. Bad arguments against better lives --Chapter 3. Must we make better people? --Chapter 4. Sex, death and cabbages : a defence of mortality --Chapter 5. Designs for life --Chapter 6. Thinking better about better thinking --Chapter 7. Good is as good does? The case of ‘moral enhancement’ --Chapter 8. Bioscience and the duty to research, part 1 : ways to make life better --Chapter 9. Bioscience and the duty to research, part 2 : non-beneficent arguments --Chapter 10. Bioscience and the good life --Bibliography --Index. | |
| 520 | |a The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life that is healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us ''better'' or more moral people? Bioscience and the Good Life explores the complex relationship between modern biosciences and human flourishing, their sympathies and schisms, and the instances of their reconciliation. | ||
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