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Autore |
Agar Nicholas |
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Titolo |
Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-31932-5 |
9786611319328 |
0-470-76068-0 |
0-470-77500-9 |
0-470-77757-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Genius sperm, eugenics, and enhancement technologies -- A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies -- Making moral images of biotechnology -- The moral image of therapy -- The moral image of nature -- The moral image of nurture -- Our postliberal future -- Enhanced humans when? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of viewConsiders real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to haveUses 'moral images' as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmasProvides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the |
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