The Resource Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People
Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People
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The item Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Has Humankind a Future?; 2 Enhancement Is a Moral Duty; 3 What Enhancements Are and Why They Matter; 4 Immortality; 5 Reproductive Choice and the Democratic Presumption; 6 Disability and Super-Ability; 7 Perfection and the Blue Guitar; 8 Good and Bad Uses of Technology; 9 Designer Children; 10 The Irredeemable Paradox of the Embryo; 11 The Obligation to Pursue and Participate in Research; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780691148168
- Label
- Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People
- Title
- Enhancing Evolution
- Title remainder
- the Ethical Case for Making Better People
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Genetics & Genomics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harris, John
- Dewey number
- 174/.957
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RG133.5 .H3795 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Science essentials
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- Human reproductive technology
- Genetic engineering
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- SCIENCE
- Genetic engineering
- Human reproductive technology
- Label
- Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Has Humankind a Future?; 2 Enhancement Is a Moral Duty; 3 What Enhancements Are and Why They Matter; 4 Immortality; 5 Reproductive Choice and the Democratic Presumption; 6 Disability and Super-Ability; 7 Perfection and the Blue Guitar; 8 Good and Bad Uses of Technology; 9 Designer Children; 10 The Irredeemable Paradox of the Embryo; 11 The Obligation to Pursue and Participate in Research; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 714568648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691148168
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
- 9780691148168
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttz6nq
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)714568648
- Label
- Enhancing Evolution : the Ethical Case for Making Better People
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Has Humankind a Future?; 2 Enhancement Is a Moral Duty; 3 What Enhancements Are and Why They Matter; 4 Immortality; 5 Reproductive Choice and the Democratic Presumption; 6 Disability and Super-Ability; 7 Perfection and the Blue Guitar; 8 Good and Bad Uses of Technology; 9 Designer Children; 10 The Irredeemable Paradox of the Embryo; 11 The Obligation to Pursue and Participate in Research; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 714568648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691148168
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9780691148168
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttz6nq
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)714568648
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Genetics & Genomics
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