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Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People
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Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People Hardcover - 2007

by John Harris

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  • Title Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People
  • Author John Harris
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 260
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Publication date August 2007
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 158344
  • ISBN 9780691128443 / 0691128448
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.3 x 0.81 in (24.03 x 16.00 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical, Human reproductive technology - Moral and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007928679
  • Dewey Decimal Code 174.959
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable, and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning to make a forthright, sweeping, and rigorous ethical case for using biotechnology to improve human life.

Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV/AIDS. But the book advocates far more than therapies designed to free us from sickness and disability. Harris champions the possibility of influencing the very course of evolution to give us increased mental and physical powers--from reasoning, concentration, and memory to strength, stamina, and reaction speed. Indeed, he supports enhancing ourselves in almost any way we desire. And it's not only morally defensible to enhance ourselves, Harris says. In some cases, it's morally obligatory.

Whether one looks upon biotechnology with hope, fear, or a little of both, Enhancing Evolution makes a case for it that no one can ignore.

About the author

John Harris is the Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester School of Law, joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and a member of Britain's Human Genetics Commission. His many books include On Cloning and A Companion to Genethics. Enhancing Evolution is based on keynote lectures Harris delivered at the James Martin Institute at the University of Oxford in 2006.

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