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Human Enhancement [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Bostrom Nick Visualizza persona
Titolo: Human Enhancement [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, UK, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
Disciplina: 174.29
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Soggetto topico: Biomedical Enhancement
Genetic engineering
Medical innovations
Prenatal diagnosis
Medical innovations - Social aspects
Medical ethics
Genetic Engineering
Ethics
Prenatal Diagnosis
Morals
Biomedical Technology
Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological
Investigative Techniques
Genetic Techniques
Psychology, Social
Technology
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
Diagnosis
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Psychiatry
Social Medicine
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Classificazione: 44.02
Altri autori: SavulescuJulian  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate; Part I. Human Enhancement in General; 1. Can Anyone Really Be Talking About Ethically Modifying Human Nature?; 2. What's Taxonomy Got to Do with It? ''Species Integrity,'' Human Rights, and Science Policy; 3. Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspective; 4. The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering; 5. What Is and Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?; 6. Enhancements Are a Moral Obligation; 7. Playing God
8. Toward a More Fruitful Debate About Enhancement9. Good, Better, or Best?; 10. The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?; Part II. Specific Enhancements; 11. Is Selection of Children Wrong?; 12. Parental Choice and Human Improvement; 13. Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis; 14. Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport; 15. Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membership
16. Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?17. Enhancing Our Truth Orientation; Part III. Enhancement as a Practical Challenge; 18. The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Sommario/riassunto: To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now. - ;To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question. Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms
Titolo autorizzato: Human Enhancement  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-383-04439-2
0-19-155960-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821991303321
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