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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154326903321

Autore

Parens Erik

Titolo

Shaping our selves : on technology, flourishing, and a habit of thinking

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-021175-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

174.2/97952

Soggetti

Technology

Perception

Morals

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Humanities

Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Psychology, Social

Mental Processes

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Psychological Phenomena

Psychology

Biomedical Technology

Bioethical Issues

Body Image

Ethics

Reconstructive Surgical Procedures

Social Perception

Medicine

Health & Biological Sciences

Medical Ethics & Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

For more than two decades, Erik Parens has participated in the debates



about using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves - debates that have at their core the question, What does it mean for human beings to flourish? Based on his experience, he has written a book to help people who are new to bioethics to understand what such debates actually entail. They entail more than the exchange of impartial reasons. They also entail efforts by critics of and enthusiasts about technologically shaping selves to justify their own ways of being in the world.