Human enhancement /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: | vi, 423 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7733696 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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 Enhancement
- 9. 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
