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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| Superior document: | Science Ethics and Society |
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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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations; digital, HTML file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.