TY - BOOK ID - 61110205 TI - The biological foundations of bioethics PY - 2015 SN - 0191781002 019102127X 0198712650 1336015489 9780191021275 9781336015487 9780198712657 9780198712657 0191061980 9780191781001 PB - Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Bioethics. KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61110205 AB - Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens, a leading expert in the field, teases out these biological foundations of bioethical writing and subjects them to scrutiny. The topics covered include human enhancement, the risks of technical progress, the alleged moralthreat of synthetic biology, the reality of human nature, the relevance of evolutionary psychology to social policy, the nature o ER -