Beyond humanity? : the ethics of biomedical enhancement / Allen Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-
Date:
2011
  • Books

About this work

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.

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Physical description

xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

Contents

The Landscape of the Enhancement Debate -- Enhancement and Human Development -- Character -- Human Nature and the Natural -- Conservatism and Enhancement -- Unintended Bad Consequences -- Moral Status and Enhancement -- Distributive Justice and the Diffusion of Innovations.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    W82 2011B91b
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780199587810
  • 0199587817