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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Science ethics and society |
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Science, ethics & society.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Good of Bioscience; Understanding the good life; Happiness and flourishing; The importance of projects; Function and the good life; The reasonable expectation standard; Rebooting the therapy/enhancement distinction; Closing the distinction?; The structure of this book; Notes; Chapter 2 Bad Arguments against Better Lives; Repugnance as a moral tool; Nature and human nature; Habermas' future; The argument from dignity; A slight reprieve?; The mythologization of the given; Is enhancement permissible?; Notes |
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Chapter 3 Must We Make Better People?John Harris' argument for a duty to enhance; Harris' argument; Why would enhancement be a duty?; Beneficence and duties to enhance; What is enhancement?; What is 'acceptable'?; A duty to enhance?; Notes; Chapter 4 Sex, Death and Cabbages: A Defence of Mortality; Defending against death; Avoiding deaths and saving lives; What's wrong with mortality ; Why not be immortal?; Self-inflicted boredom?; Filling a life, and the LOT revisited; Mortality and the good life; The boon of mortality; Notes; Chapter 5 Designs for Life; Enhancement in sport |
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The character of the sportBecoming a blade-runner; On me, not in me; Other objections; Body modification and the good life; Notes; Chapter 6 Thinking Better about Better Thinking; Enhancing memory; Out of our heads; Criminal detection: A duty to remember?; Memory and absentmindedness; Enhancing processing; The argument from alienation; The social benefits of cognitive enhancement; The benefits of distraction; Alienation revisited; The case for cognitive enhancement: Not wholly proven; Notes; Chapter 7 Good Is as Good Does? The Case of 'Moral Enhancement' |
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The possibility of 'moral enhancement'Strategies for moral enhancement; The argument from freedom; Freedom and options; Nicomachean moral enhancement; Rebuilding the argument from freedom; The argument from reasonable disagreement; Enhancing moral reasoning; Is moral enhancement desirable anyway?; Notes; Chapter 8 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 1: Ways to Make Life Better; Is there a duty of beneficence?; Beneficence, benefit and obligation; What would be beneficial research?; The argument from incommensurability; The argument from anthropology; Ecology and economy |
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Is there a duty to research?Notes; Chapter 9 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 2: Non-Beneficent Arguments; Formulating the duty to research; The prevention and causation argument; The argument from rescue; The argument from filial piety; The free rider argument; Fairness and the future; Reason and obligation; A puzzle about duties; Notes; 9-and-a-bit Bioscience and the Good Life; Note; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life that is healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us 'better' or more moral people? Bioscience and the Good Life explores the complex relationship between modern biosciences and human flourishing. Here cognitive enhancement, longevity, and the spectacle of excellence in sports, are examined within the context of what constitutes a life well lived. Brassington advances an insightful and involved response to the existing debates between bioscientific optimists and pessimists, one which mediates their differences, and expands the traditional scope of their arguments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Bioethics.
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Life sciences -- Social aspects
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Philosophy and the life sciences.
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Well-being.
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comfort (sensation)
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Bioethics
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Life sciences -- Social aspects
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Philosophy and the life sciences
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Well-being
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1849663386 |
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9781849663380 |
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1849663394 |
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9781849663397 |
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1780930933 |
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9781780930930 |
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1849664439 |
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9781849664431 |
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9781306720403 |
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1306720400 |
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9781472544315 |
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1472544315 |
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