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Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal (eds): The ethics of human enhancement: understanding the debate

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  1. Ultimately, he argues that rather than thinking about enhancement in terms of whether it is “unnatural,” one should consider whether it problematically extends one’s control “outside his area of competence” (p. 97).

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Yancey, H. Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal (eds): The ethics of human enhancement: understanding the debate. Theor Med Bioeth 39, 397–401 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9462-z

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