How to build a better human : an ethical blueprint /

How to build a better human : an ethical blueprint /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pence, Gregory E.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2012.
Description:	x, 200 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects. Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics. Bioethical Issues. Genetic Counseling -- ethics. Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8956496

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ISBN:	9781442217621 (cloth : alk. paper) 1442217626 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781442217645 (electronic) 1442217642 (electronic)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I. Competent Adults Enhancing Themselves
1. What if Your Virtual Life Surpasses Your Real Life?
2. Lessons from the History of Bioethics
3. Expanding the Mind
4. Building Better Female Bodies
5. Building Better Male Bodies
6. Is It Moral to Feel Better than Well?
7. Ways to Build a Longer Life
8. Is It Wrong to Live to One Hundred?
9. A Better Life with Personalized Genetics
Part II. Choosing Better Future Children
10. Building Better Kids: Choosing Embryos
11. Eugenic Abortions?
12. Building Better Kids during Gestation
13. Building Better Kids: Vaccinations
14. Building Better Emerging Minds: Adderall and Ritalin
Part III. Changing Human Nature?
15. How Not to Think about Genetic Enhancement
16. Five Psychosocial Objections to Enhancing Genes
17. Cloning, Primordial Cells, Enhancement
18. Conclusions and Six Practical Proposals
Bibliography
Index