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How to Build a Better Human

An Ethical Blueprint
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Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement. Yet to date, it has failed to use them well, in part because of ethical objections. Meanwhile, covert attempts flourish to enhance with steroids, mind-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery—all largely unstudied scientifically. The little success to date has been sporadic and financed privately. In How to Build a Better Human, prominent bioethicist Gregory E. Pence argues that people, if we are careful and ethical, can use genetics, biotechnology, and medicine to improve ourselves, and that we should publicly study what people are doing covertly. Pence believes that we need to transcend the two common frame stories of bioethics: bioconservative alarmism and uncritical enthusiasm, and that bioethics should become part of the solution—not the problem—in making better humans.

Author Biography:

Gregory E. Pence, professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an expert in medical ethics, is the author or editor of numerous books on bioethics, including Medical Ethics, Elements of Bioethics, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning?, and Cloning After Dolly.
Release date NZ
August 17th, 2012
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
224
Dimensions
146x223x21
ISBN-13
9781442217621
Product ID
19852471

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