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How to Build a Better Human

An Ethical Blueprint
  • ISBN-13: 9781442217638
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Gregory E. Pence
  • Price: AUD $68.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2015
  • Format: Paperback 212 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]
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Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement. Yet to date, it has failed to use them well, in part because of ethical objections. Meanwhile, covert attempts flourish to enhance with steroids, mind-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery-all largely unstudied scientifically. The little success to date has been sporadic and financed privately. In How to Build a Better Human, prominent bioethicist Gregory E. Pence argues that people, if we are careful and ethical, can use genetics, biotechnology, and medicine to improve ourselves, and that we should publicly study what people are doing covertly. Pence believes that we need to transcend the two common frame stories of bioethics: bioconservative alarmism and uncritical enthusiasm, and that bioethics should become part of the solution-not the problem-in making better humans.
Preface Part I-Competent Adults Chapter 1: What if Your Virtual Life Surpasses Your Real Life? Chapter 2: Lessons from Bioethics' History Chapter 3: Expanding the Mind with Drugs Chapter 4: Building Better Female Bodies Chapter 5: Building Better Male Bodies Chapter 6: Is it Moral to Feel Better than Well? Chapter 7: Practical Ways to Build a Longer Life Chapter 8: Is It Wrong to Live to a Hundred? Chapter 9: Personalized Genomics: Caveat Emptor! Part II-Choosing Better, Future Children Chapter 10: Choosing a Better Embryo Chapter 11: Eugenic Abortions? Chapter 12: Building Better Fetuses in Utero Chapter 13: Building Better Kids at Birth: Vaccinations Chapter 14: Building Better Minds of Children: Ritalin and Adderal Part III-Changing Human Nature? Chapter 15: How Not to think about Genetic Enhancement Chapter 16: Human Enhancement; Six Psychosocial Objections Chapter 17: Overview: Cloning, Primordial Cells & Enhancement Chapter 18: Conclusions and Six Practical Proposals Acknowledgments
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