Enhancing Human Traits

Ethical and Social Implications

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2000
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87840-780-4 (ISBN)

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Explores ethical and social implications of various biotechnologies that make it possible to enhance an individual's mental and physical attributes. Focusing on the moral issues pertaining to cosmetic surgery and cosmetic psychopharmacolog, this title examines notions of identity, authenticity, normality, and complicity.

In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications of new biotechnologies that are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual's mental and physical attributes in ways previously only imagined. To clarify the issues, the contributors grapple with the central concept of "enhancement" and probe the uses and abuses of the term. Focusing in particular on the moral issues pertaining to cosmetic surgery and cosmetic psychopharmacology (a category which includes Prozac), they also examine notions of identity, authenticity, normality, and complicity. Other essays in this collection address the social ramifications of the new technologies, including the problems of access and fairness.

Erik Parens is the associate for philosophical studies at The Hastings Center.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.1.2000
Reihe/Serie	Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series
Verlagsort	Washington, DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-87840-780-4 / 0878407804
ISBN-13	978-0-87840-780-4 / 9780878407804
Zustand	Neuware