Enhancing human traits : ethical and social implications /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1998.
Description:	x, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Hastings Center studies in ethics
Subject:	Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical innovations -- Social aspects. Psychotropic drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects. Surgery, Plastic -- Moral and ethical aspects. Performance technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical innovations -- Social aspects. Performance technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Psychotropic drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects. Surgery, Plastic -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3563110

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Other authors / contributors:	Parens, Erik, 1957-
ISBN:	0878407030
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Is Better Always Good? The Enhancement Project
What Does Enhancement Mean?
Enhancements of Human Function: Some Distinctions for Policymakers
The Treatment/Enhancement Distinction as an Armament in the Policy Wars
A Fatal Attraction to Normalizing: Treating Disabilities as Deviations from "Species-Typical" Functioning
The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery: Luxury or Welfare?
Aspirin for the Mind? Some Ethical Worries about Psychopharmacology
Do Means Matter
Cosmetic Surgery, Suspect Norms, and the Ethics of Complicity
The Tyranny of Happiness: Ethics and Cosmetic Psychopharmacology
Braveheart, Babe, and the Contemporary Body
Enhancements and the Ethical Significance of Vulnerability
Devices and Desires of Our Own Hearts
Contributor List
Index

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