Humanity enhanced : genetic choice and the challenge for liberal democracies / Russell Blackford.
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political...
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The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Basic bioethics.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Motivation and overview
- 2. Human enhancement and the harm principle
- 3. Genetic engineering: what's the harm?
- 4. A threat to autonomy?
- 5. Violating the "natural order"
- 6. Indirect and intangible harms
- 7. Fairness, equality, and distributive justice
- 8. Policy implications.