Beyond humanity?
Subtitle: the ethics of biomedical enhancement
By: Allen Buchanan
Series: Uehiro series in practical ethics; Uehiro series in practical ethics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780199587810
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Ethics; Biomedical Enhancement; Medical innovations
Description: "This book examines the ethical controversy surrounding biomedical enhancement: the use of biotechnologies to improve normal human capacities and characteristics. It deflates the heated rhetoric of the debate and, unlike other treatment of the topic, is informed by an understanding of evolutionary biology. The book debunks the idea that the natural is always good, and explains why and how we might need to change human nature"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Landscape of the Enhancement Debate --; title: Enhancement and Human Development --; title: Character --; title: Human Nature and the Natural --; title: Conservatism and Enhancement --; title: Unintended Bad Consequences --; title: Moral Status and Enhancement --; title: Distributive Justice and the Diffusion of Innovations.