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Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement - Couverture rigide

Buchanan, Allen E.

 
9780199587810: Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
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ISBN 10 : 0199587817 ISBN 13 : 9780199587810
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful. In Beyond Humanity a leading philosopher offers a powerful and controversial exploration of urgent ethical issues concerning human enhancement. These raise enduring questions about what it is to be human, about individuality, about our relationship to nature, and about what sort of society we should strive to have. Allen Buchanan urges that the debate about enhancement needs to be informed by a proper understanding of evolutionary biology, which has discredited the simplistic conceptions of human nature used by many opponents of enhancement. He argues that there are powerful reasons for us to embark on the enhancement enterprise, and no objections to enhancement that are sufficient to outweigh them.

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À propos de l'auteur

Allen Buchanan is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199587817
ISBN 13 
9780199587810
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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