2004, ISBN: 9781405123891

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2004. Hardcover. 1405123893 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AV… Meer...

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2004. Hardcover. 1405123893 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 216 pp -- -- Choose us, for the information you need -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- 1 Genius sperm, eugenics and enhancement technologies 1 * 2 A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies 20 * 3 Making moral images of biotechnology 39 * 4 The moral image of therapy 64 * 5 The moral image of nature 88 * 6 The moral image of nurture 111 * 7 Our postliberal future? 132 * 8 Enhanced humans when? 158. -- DESCRIPTION: -- "In this book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defuses anxieties and defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's genetic characteristics. " Agar describes three technologies that may soon make liberal eugenics a practical possibility - cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, genomics, and genetic engineering - and argues that parents can use these technologies to realize their procreative goals without harming the people they will bring into existence. He rejects the idea that eugenics need divide society into genetic haves and have-nots, and denies that social pressures need force eugenic choices to converge on a single view of human excellence, suggesting that these threats to liberal social arrangements can be resisted. -- "The mischievously provocative title for this essay, "In Defence of Human Enhancement", obscures the fact that the book is really quite a traditional exploration of the ethics surrounding modern reproductive technologies, stem-cell research and the possibility of genetically engineering children. How can we think sensibly about what often seem like lurid sci-fi scenarios? Agar grandly proposes a newfangled "method of moral images", which turns out to be quite traditional argument by analogy, though he is careful to point out in what direction we are able to draw proper inferences when comparing cases. He spends a lot of time rebutting other arguments, often very effectively (in particular, the idea that our automatic "Yuck!" reaction to such ideas should somehow inform our moral decisions) , adroitly shows how the choice of terminology in bioethics debates already encodes certain moral assumptions about the situation, and in general makes a very persuasive case for an informed, liberal though not laissez-faire approach to research. " - The Guardian. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 6<

2004, ISBN: 9781405123891

In Defence of Human Enhancement, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)]

2004, ISBN: 1405123893

Gebundene Ausgabe PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:John Wiley & Sons]

ISBN: 9781405123891

hardback, [PU: Blackwell Publishing]