About this title: Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life - to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup - have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable, and have often met with extreme hostility. But in "Enhancing Evolution", leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning to make a forthright, sweeping, and rigorous ethical case for using biotechnology to improve human life. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing - good morally, good for ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press,, Princeton:
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780691128443ISBN:0691128448
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ. PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780691128443ISBN:0691128448
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 260 pages. Dismantles objections to ge*n*e*t*ic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning to make an ethical case for using biotechnology to improve human life. this work argues that human enhancement is a good thing-good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a ge*n*e*t*ic heritage that needs serious improvement. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780691128443ISBN:0691128448
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780691128443ISBN:0691128448
Description: New. Dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning to make an ethical case for using biotechnology to improve human life. This work argues that human enhancement is a good thing-good morally, good for indi... read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780691128443ISBN:0691128448
Description: New. "John Harris has an enormous reputation in bioethics for his adroit, acerbic, dead-on argumentation, his ingenuity at undermining familiar but flaccid argument, his immense imaginative capacities, and his skewering wit. These are rare qualities in an... read more
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Description: "John Harris has an enormous reputation in bioethics for his adroit, acerbic, dead-on argumentation, his ingenuity at undermining familiar but flaccid argument, his immense imaginative capacities, and his skewering wit. These are rare qualities in an often goody-goody field like bioethics, and his intellectual skills earn him real respect. His philosophical work is an exploration, as he puts it, of our shared responsibility to make the world a better place. "Enhancing Evolution" is an ample ... read more
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