Liberal eugenics
Subtitle: in defence of human enhancement
By: Nicholas Agar.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Eugenics.; Science_and_Technology
Description: "In this book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defuses anxieties and defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's genetic characteristics." "Agar describes three technologies that may soon make liberal eugenics a practical possibility - cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, genomics, and genetic engineering - and argues that parents can use these technologies to realize their procreative goals without harming the people they will bring into existence. He rejects the idea that eugenics need divide society into genetic haves and have-nots, and denies that social pressures need force eugenic choices to converge on a single view of human excellence, suggesting that these threats to liberal social arrangements can be resisted."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genius sperm, eugenics, and enhancement technologies; title: A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies; title: Making moral images of biotechnology; title: The moral image of therapy; title: The moral image of nature; title: The moral image of nurture; title: Our postliberal future; title: Enhanced humans when?