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Beyond humanity? : the ethics of biomedical enhancement / Allen Buchanan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Allen E., 1948- author.
- Series:
- Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
- Uehiro series in practical ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)
- Other Title:
- Ethics of biomedical enhancement
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biotechnologies enable us to be smarter, have better memories be stronger and quicker, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. Buchanan explores urgent ethical issues raised by these developments, about what it is to be human and what sort of society we should strive to have.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-967149-4
- 1-283-69202-3
- 0-19-165162-1
- OCLC:
- 922971468
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