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We have only just begun to manipulate human beings with technology. We are able to change people through genetic technology, operations, and chemical compounds. Should we eliminate our illnesses through genetic intervention? Should we also improve our "normal" properties and form humanity anew - people with infrared vision, people with a higher intelligence, or even chimeras, that is a mixes of human and animal. A lot of this is clearly still science fiction, but we already need to decide whether to take memory pills and mood-enhancing drugs. How would a world full of improved people look? This book wants to evaluate "enhancement," i.e. the attempt to improve normal properties of healthy people through intervention is their bodies.
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Bernward Gesang, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
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"Overall, this affordable book offers to the interested and educated newcomer into the field of enhancement an introductory overview on some key ethical issues. Experts in this field of research are provided with a philosophical argumentation in favour of a liberal position presented in contrast to sketches of bio-conservative's criticisms of enhancement procedures."
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"In seinem informativen Grundlagenwerk [...] gelingt es Bernward Gesang, in einer klugen Mischung von aufklärerischem Fortschrittsglauben und utilitaristischer Einschätzung von gesellschaftlichen Folgen eine Position zu formulieren, die kompensatorische, therapeutische und selbst leistungssteigernde Verbesserungen zulässt, radikale Eingriffe, die den heutigen Menschen in seelischer und körperlicher Hinsicht unkenntlich machen, jedoch verbieten will."
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- Publisherde Gruyter
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 3110195607
- ISBN 13 9783110195606
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages184
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