Human Enhancement.

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 questi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bostrom, Nick
Otros Autores: Savulescu, Julian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press, UK, 2009.
Temas:
Medical innovations > Social aspects.
Medical ethics.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Genetic engineering.
Biomedical Enhancement > ethics
Genetic Engineering > ethics
Prenatal Diagnosis > ethics
Ethics, Medical
Prenatal Diagnosis
Éthique médicale.
Diagnostics prénatals.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Genetic engineering
Medical ethics
Medical innovations > Social aspects
Prenatal diagnosis
Ethik
Medizin
Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt
Medische ethiek.
Genetische manipulatie.
Ontdekkingen.
Correcties.
Medicinsk etik.
Genteknik > etik och moral.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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