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035 _a(CaBNVSL)mat06670256
035 _a(IDAMS)0b00006481f6e062
040 _aCaBNVSL
_beng
_erda
_cCaBNVSL
_dCaBNVSL
050 4 _aQH442
_b.B53 2014eb
082 0 0 _a174.2
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100 1 _aBlackford, Russell,
_d1954-
_924184
245 1 0 _aHumanity enhanced :
_bgenetic choice and the challenge for liberal democracies /
_cRussell Blackford.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_c[2014]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2013]
300 _a1 PDF (231 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aBasic bioethics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aEmerging 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.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aGenetic engineering
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
_924185
650 0 _aGenomics
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
_924186
650 0 _aRational choice theory
_xPolitical aspects.
_924187
650 0 _aHuman beings
_xPsychology.
_924188
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_924189
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_924190
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262026611
830 0 _aBasic bioethics
_924191
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6670256
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999 _c73347
_d73347