Humanity enhanced : (Record no. 73347)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6670256 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204817.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s2013 mau ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262318532 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | hardcover : alk. paper |
| 082 00 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 174.2 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Blackford, Russell, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Humanity enhanced : |
| Sub Title | genetic choice and the challenge for liberal democracies / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (231 pages). |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Basic bioethics |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford eschews the heated rhetoric that surrounds genetic enhancement technologies to examine them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal democracy. Blackford argues that the challenge is not, as commonly supposed, the urgent need for a strict regulatory action. Rather, the challenge is that fear of these technologies has created an atmosphere in which liberal tolerance itself is threatened. Focusing on reproductive cloning, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos, and genetic engineering, Blackford takes on objections to enhancement technologies (raised by J�urgen Habermas and others) based on such concerns as individual autonomy and distributive justice. He argues that some enhancements would be genuinely beneficial, and that it would be justified in some circumstances even to exert pressure on parents to undertake genetic modification of embryos. Blackford argues against draconian suppression of human enhancement, although he acknowledges that some specific and limited regulation may be required in the future. More generally, he argues, liberal democracies would demonstrate liberal values by tolerating and accepting the emerging technologies of genetic choice. |
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| General subdivision | Moral and ethical aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Moral and ethical aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Political aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Psychology. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6670256 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2014] |
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| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2013] |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Genetic engineering |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Genomics |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Rational choice theory |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Human beings |
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