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The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate
Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2016)
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An international team of ethicists refresh the debate about human enhancement by examining whether resistance to the use of technology to enhance our mental and physical capabilities can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or explained away, e.g. in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning.Author Profiles
Bioethics. Biotechnology Philosophy. Genetic engineering Moral and ethical aspects. Biotechnology Moral and ethical aspects. Biomedical Enhancement. Genetic Engineering ethics. Biotechnology ethics. Biotechnology Philosophy. Bioethics. Biotechnology Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic engineering Moral and ethical aspects. Enhancement
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A natural alliance against a common foe? Opponents of enhancement and the social model of disability.Linda Barclay
Section I. Understanding the debate. Reason, emotion, and morality : some cautions for the enhancement project / C. A. J. Coady ; Repugnance as performance error : the role of disgust in bioethical intuitions / Joshua May ; Reasons, reflection, and repugnance / Doug McConnell and Jeanette Kennett ; A natural alliance against a common foe? Opponents of enhancement and the social model of disability / Linda Barclay ; Playing God : What is the problem? / John Weckert ; Conservative and critical morality in debate about reproductive technologies / John McMillan ; Human enhancement : conceptual clarity and moral significance / Chris Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid ; Human enhancement for whom? [REVIEW]Robert Sparrow
Section II. Advancing the debate. Enhancing conservatism / Rebecca Roache and Julian Savulescu ; Maclntyre's paradox / Bernadette Tobin ; Partiality for humanity and enhancement / Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu ; Enhancement, mind-uploading, and personal identity / Nicholas Agar ; Levelling the playing field : on the alleged unfairness of the genetic lottery / Michael Hauskeller ; Buchanan and the conservative argument against human enhancement from biological and social harmony / Steve Clarke ; Moral enhancement, enhancement, and sentiment / Gregory E. Kaebnick ; The evolution of moral enhancement. [REVIEW]Russell Powell & Allen Buchanan
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