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Autore: | Agar Nicholas |
Titolo: | Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.92 |
Soggetto topico: | Eugenics |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Liberal eugenics |
ISBN: | 1-281-31932-5 |
9786611319328 | |
0-470-76068-0 | |
0-470-77500-9 | |
0-470-77757-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910145419803321 |
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