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Shaping our selves : on technology, flourishing, and a habit of thinking / Erik Parens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parens, Erik, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgery, Plastic--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Surgery, Plastic.
- Biomedical engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Biomedical engineering.
- Body image.
- Bioethics.
- Social perception.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Body Image.
- Biomedical Technology--ethics.
- Plastic Surgery Procedures--ethics.
- Social Perception.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bioethical Issues.
- Body Image.
- Biomedical Technology--ethics.
- Plastic Surgery Procedures--ethics.
- Social Perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages)
- Other Title:
- On technology, flourishing, and a habit of thinking
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For more than two decades, Erik Parens has participated in the debates about using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves - debates that have at their core the question, What does it mean for human beings to flourish? Based on his experience, he has written a book to help people who are new to bioethics to understand what such debates actually entail. They entail more than the exchange of impartial reasons. They also entail efforts by critics of and enthusiasts about technologically shaping selves to justify their own ways of being in the world.
- Contents:
- Seeing from somewhere in particular
- Embracing binocularity
- Creativity and gratitude
- Technology as vlaue-free and as value-laden
- Nobody's against true enhancement
- Comprehending persons as subjectss and as objects
- Respecting persons as subjects and as objects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-021175-X
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