Human enhancement
By: edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom.
Contributors: Savulescu, Julian.; Bostrom, Nick, 1973-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780199299720
Subjects: Medical innovations -- Social aspects; Medical ethics; Prenatal diagnosis; Genetic engineering; Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics; Genetic Engineering -- ethics; Prenatal Diagnosis -- ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human; title: Nature? / Norman Daniels; title: "Altering'' human nature? : misplaced essentialism in science policy / Eric Juengst; title: Should we improve human nature? : an interrogation from an Asian perspective / Ryuichi Ida; title: The case against perfection : what's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel; title: What is and is not wrong with enhancement? / Frances Kamm; title: Enhancements are a moral obligation / John Harris; title: Playing God / C. A. J. Coady; title: Toward a more fruitful debate about enhancement / Erik Parens; title: Good, better, or best? / Arthur L. Caplan; title: The human prejudice and the moral status of enhanced beings : what do we owe the gods? / Julian Savulescu; title: Is selection of children wrong? / Dan W. Brock; title: Parental choice and human improvement / Peter Singer; title: Reasons against the selection of life : from Japan's experience; title: Of prenatal genetic diagnosis / Susumu Shimazono; title: Medical enhancement and the ethos of elite sport / Torbjorn Tannsjo; title: Life enhancement technologies and the significance of social category membership / Christine Overall; title: Paternalism in the age of cognitive enhancement : do civil liberties presuppose roughly equal mental ability? / Daniel Wikler; title: Enhancing our truth orientation / Robin Hanson; title: The wisdom of nature : an evolutionary heuristic for human enhancement / Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg.