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How to Build a Better Human - An Ethical Blueprint (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,318
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How to Build a Better Human - An Ethical Blueprint (Hardcover, New): Gregory E. Pence

How to Build a Better Human - An Ethical Blueprint (Hardcover, New)

Gregory E. Pence

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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.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2012
First published: August 2012
Authors: Gregory E. Pence
Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1762-1
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
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LSN: 1-4422-1762-6
Barcode: 9781442217621

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