Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better?
Cambridge University Press (2010)
| Abstract | Machine generated contents note: 1. Seven ways of making people better; 2. Rational approaches to the genetic challenge; 3. The best babies and parental responsibility; 4. Deaf embryos, morality, and the law; 5. Saviour siblings and treating people as a means; 6. Reproductive cloning and designing human beings; 7. Embryonic stem cells, vulnerability, and sanctity; 8. Gene therapies, hopes, and fears; 9. Considerable life extension and the meaning of life; 10. Taking the genetic challenge rationally. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Genetic engineering Moral and ethical aspects Medical genetics Moral and ethical aspects Genetic Techniques ethics Bioethical Issues | |||||||||
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| Call number | QH442.H395 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780521763363 0521763363 | |||||||||
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