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Enhancing human traits : ethical and social implications / edited by Erik Parens

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Author:
Parens, Erik 1957-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1998
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
Topic:
Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Medical innovations--Social aspects  Search this
Psychotropic drugs--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Surgery, Plastic--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Performance technology--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758422