| Description |
1 online resource (x, 200 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What if your virtual life surpasses your real life? -- Lessons from the history of bioethics -- Expanding the mind -- Building better female bodies -- Building better male bodies -- Is it moral to feel better than well? -- Ways to build a longer life -- Is it wrong to live to one hundred? -- A better life with personalized genetics -- Building better kids: choosing embryos -- Eugenic abortions? -- Building better kids during gestation -- Building better kids: vaccinations -- Building better emerging minds: Adderall and Ritalin -- How not to think about genetic enhancement -- Five psychosocial objections to enhancing genes -- Cloning, primordial cells, enhancement -- Conclusions and six practical proposals. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medical innovations. |
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Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics. |
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Bioethical Issues. |
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Genetic Counseling -- ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pence, Gregory E. How to build a better human 9781442217621 (DLC) 2012017542 (OCoLC)778424446 |
| ISBN |
9781442217645 (electronic book) |
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1442217642 (electronic book) |
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1306348994 |
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9781306348997 |
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9781442217621 |
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1442217626 |
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