| Description |
x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Hastings Center studies in ethics
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Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Is better always good? the enhancement project / Erik Parens -- What does enhancement mean? / Eric T. Juengst -- Enhancements of human function : some distinctions for policymakers / Dan W. Brock -- Treatment-enhancement distinction as an armament in the policy wars / David M. Frankford -- Fatal attraction to normalizing : treating disabilities as deviations from "species-typical" functioning / Anita Silvers -- Rhetoric of cosmetic surgery : luxury or welfare? / Kathy Davis -- Aspirin for the mind? some ethical worries about psychopharmacology / Carol Freedman -- Do means matter / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Cosmetic surgery, suspect norms, and the ethics of complicity / Margaret Olivia Little -- Tyranny of happiness : ethics and cosmetic psychopharmacology / Carl Elliot -- Braveheart, Babe, and the contemporary body / Susan Bordo -- Enhancements and the ethical significance of vulnerability / Gerald P. McKenny -- Devices and desires of our own hearts / Mary G. Winkler. |
| 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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Medical innovations -- Social aspects.
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Medical innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Psychotropic drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Psychotropic drugs -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Psychotropic drugs. |
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Surgery, Plastic -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Surgery, Plastic -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Surgery, Plastic. |
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Performance technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Performance technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Performance technology. |
| Added Author |
Parens, Erik, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0878407030 |
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