How To Build a Better Human
Subtitle: An Ethical Blueprint
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781442217621
Table of contents: title: Part one : Competent adults enhancing themselves.; title: What if your virtual life surpasses your real life?; title: Lessons from the history of bioethics; title: Expanding the mind; title: Building better female bodies; title: Building better male bodies; title: Is it moral to feel better than well?; title: Ways to build a longer life; title: Is it wrong to live to one hundred?; title: A better life with personalized genetics; title: Part two : Choosing better future children.; title: Building better kids : choosing embryos; title: Eugenic abortions?; title: Building better kids during gestation; title: Building better kids : vaccinations; title: Building better emerging minds : Adderall and Ritalin; title: Part three : Changing human nature?; title: How not to think about genetic enhancement; title: Five psychosocial objections to enhancing genes; title: Cloning, primordial cells, enhancement; title: Conclusions and six practical proposals