The ethics of human enhancement : understanding the debate /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description:	269 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bioethics. Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Bioethical issues. Biotechnology -- Philosophy. Bioethics. Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039110

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Other authors / contributors:	Clarke, Steve, 1964- editor. Savulescu, Julian, editor. Coady, C. A. J., editor. Giubilini, Alberto, editor. Sanyal, Sagar, editor.
ISBN:	9780198754855 019875485X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. 'The Ethics of Human Enhancement' examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning. An international team of ethicists refresh the debate with new ideas and arguments, making connections with scientific research and with related issues in moral philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors
1. Challenging Human Enhancement
Section I. Understanding the Debate
2. Reason, Emotion, and Morality: Some Cautions for the Enhancement Project
3. Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions
4. Reasons, Reflection, and Repugnance
5. A Natural Alliance against a Common Foe? Opponents of Enhancement and the Social Model of Disability
6. Playing God: What is the Problem?
7. Conservative and Critical Morality in Debate about Reproductive Technologies
8. Human Enhancement: Conceptual Clarity and Moral Significance
9. Human Enhancement for Whom?
Section II. Advancing the Debate
10. Enhancing Conservatism
11. MacIntyre's Paradox
12. Partiality for Humanity and Enhancement
13. Enhancement, Mind-Uploading, and Personal Identity
14. Levelling the Playing Field: On the Alleged Unfairness of the Genetic Lottery
15. Buchanan and the Conservative Argument against Human Enhancement from Biological and Social Harmony
16. Moral Enhancement, Enhancement, and Sentiment
17. The Evolution of Moral Enhancement
Index

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