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423

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Human Enhancement
2010, Oxford University Press
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Human enhancement
2008, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human
Nature? / Norman Daniels
"Altering'' human nature? : misplaced essentialism in science policy / Eric Juengst
Should we improve human nature? : an interrogation from an Asian perspective / Ryuichi Ida
The case against perfection : what's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel
What is and is not wrong with enhancement? / Frances Kamm
Enhancements are a moral obligation / John Harris
Playing God / C. A. J. Coady
Toward a more fruitful debate about enhancement / Erik Parens
Good, better, or best? / Arthur L. Caplan
The human prejudice and the moral status of enhanced beings : what do we owe the gods? / Julian Savulescu
Is selection of children wrong? / Dan W. Brock
Parental choice and human improvement / Peter Singer
Reasons against the selection of life : from Japan's experience
Of prenatal genetic diagnosis / Susumu Shimazono
Medical enhancement and the ethos of elite sport / Torbjorn Tannsjo
Life enhancement technologies and the significance of social category membership / Christine Overall
Paternalism in the age of cognitive enhancement : do civil liberties presuppose roughly equal mental ability? / Daniel Wikler
Enhancing our truth orientation / Robin Hanson
The wisdom of nature : an evolutionary heuristic for human enhancement / Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610.1/9
Library of Congress
RA418.5.M4 H86 2008, RA418.5.M4H86 2008, RA418.5.M4 H86 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
423

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17008084M
ISBN 13
9780199299720
LCCN
2008031138
OCLC/WorldCat
237018382
LibraryThing
7798132
Goodreads
3299039

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OL18787746W

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