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Title: Enhancing Human Traits
Condition: New
Subtitle: Ethical and Social Implications
ISBN-10: 0878407804
EAN: 9780878407804
ISBN: 9780878407804
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/03/2000
Description: In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications of new biotechnologies that are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual's mental and physical attributes in ways previously only imagined. To clarify the issues, the contributors grapple with the central concept of "enhancement" and probe the uses and abuses of the term. Focusing in particular on the moral issues pertaining to cosmetic surgery and cosmetic psychopharmacology (a category which includes Prozac), they also examine notions of identity, authenticity, normality, and complicity. Other essays in this collection address the social ramifications of the new technologies, including the problems of access and fairness.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 399g
Contributor: Erik Parens (Edited by)
Author: Erik Parens
Genre: Medicine
Book Series: Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2000

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