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Enhancing Evolution
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ISBN: 1283069555 9786613069559 1400836387 0691148163 9781400836383 9781400824021 1400824028 9780691148168 9781283069557 9780691148168 6613069558 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. 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. Further, 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 says, it's not only morally defensible to enhance ourselves; in some cases, it's morally obligatory. In a new preface, Harris offers a glimpse at the new science and technology to come, equipping readers with the knowledge to assess the ethics and policy dimensions of future forms of human enhancement.


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Ethical dilemmas in assisted reproductive technologies
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ISBN: 3119162825 3110240203 9783110240207 9783110240214 3110240211 1283399644 9786613399649 9781283399647 6613399647 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) include the artificial or partially artificial methods to achieve pregnancy. These new technologies lead to substantial changes regarding of ethical and legal aspects in reproductive medicine. The book focuses on current hot topics about ethical dilemmas in ART, e.g. about the duties of ethical committees, guidelines regarding informed consent, ethical and legal aspects of sperm donation, embryo donation, ethics of embryonic stem cells, therapeutical cloning, patenting of human genes, commercialization.


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Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender
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ISBN: 9400726058 9048124743 9786612333040 1282333046 9048124751 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioethics: assisted reproduction, enhancing and gender. Part one in this book targets present policies and legislature of assisted reproduction. Part two focuses on current views of the ethics of PGD and enhancing. Part three tackles the future of gender. Part four deals with artificial wombs and ectogenesis. The aim of this book is to provide a joint perspective in order to get the big picture. Contributors include Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, Søren Holm, David Heyd, Daniel Callahan, Harriet Bradley, Ekaterina Balabanova and others. Some chapters in this book will significantly contribute to the current discussion of the topics at stake; other chapters will start a discussion on issues that have not yet been discussed. 'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' will certainly appeal to readers who are interested in any of the intersecting topics of assisted reproduction, genetic enhancing and gender; bioethicists, sociologists, genetic counsellors, gynaecologists, legislators, and students of the relevant disciplines.

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Gender identity. --- Genetic engineering --Moral and ethical aspects. --- Genetic engineering --Social aspects. --- Human reproductive technology --Moral and ethical aspects. --- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis --Moral and ethical aspects. --- Reproduction --Social aspects. --- Genetic engineering --- Human reproductive technology --- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis --- Reproduction --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Amphimixis --- Generation --- Pangenesis --- Procreation --- Preembryo diagnosis --- Preimplantation diagnosis --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Medicine. --- Ethics. --- Reproductive medicine. --- Medical ethics. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Reproductive Medicine. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Gender Studies. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Health --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Psychological aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Health aspects --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Physiology --- Sex (Biology) --- Embryology --- Generative organs --- Theriogenology --- Developmental psychology. --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human

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