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dc.contributor.authorAnomaly, Jonny
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Tess
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-30T14:17:24Z
dc.date.available2023-10-30T14:17:24Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77047
dc.description.abstractThe desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In this chapter, we will distinguish different forms of enhancement – for example, environmental, biochemical, and genetic interventions aimed at improving existing capacities. But we will focus on genetic enhancement. We will ask whether there is any interesting difference between treating diseases and enhancing existing capacities. We will discuss reasons people may have to enhance their children, and moral concerns that opponents of enhancement have expressed, such as discrimination against disabled or unenhanced people in a world in which enhancement is common. Finally, we will address how to think about human enhancement from a social standpoint, where each person's choices to enhance themselves or their children has network effects on the human population as a whole.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherEthics, genetic enhancement, biomedical, bioethics, treatment, medical, health, disabilityen_US
dc.titleChapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancementen_US
dc.title.alternativeKey Concepts and Future Prospectsen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003105596-14en_US
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oapen.relation.isFundedByfd53808a-cdec-480e-bf85-f52973f603b7en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367615796en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367615819en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages10en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
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