Beyond humanity? : the ethics of biomedical enhancement / Allen Buchanan.
- Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
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Description
"This book examines the ethical controversy surrounding biomedical enhancement: the use of biotechnologies to improve normal human capacities and characteristics. It deflates the heated rhetoric of the debate and, unlike other treatment of the topic, is informed by an understanding of evolutionary biology. The book debunks the idea that the natural is always good, and explains why and how we might need to change human nature"--Publisher description.
Publication/Creation
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical description
xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Landscape of the Enhancement Debate -- Enhancement and Human Development -- Character -- Human Nature and the Natural -- Conservatism and Enhancement -- Unintended Bad Consequences -- Moral Status and Enhancement -- Distributive Justice and the Diffusion of Innovations.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionW82 2011B91bOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780199587810
- 0199587817