Rationality and the genetic challenge [electronic resource] : making people better? / Matti Häyry.

Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

1 online resource (287 pages).

Matti Hyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

Books / Online

English

August 11, 2014

Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Seven ways of making people better; 2 Rational approaches to the genetic challenge; 3 The best babies and parental responsibility; 4 Deaf embryos, morality, and the law; 5 Saviour siblings and treating people as a means; 6 Reproductive cloning and designing human beings; 7 Embryonic stem cells, vulnerability, and sanctity; 8 Gene therapies, hopes, and fears; 9 Considerable life extension and the meaning of life; 10 Taking the genetic challenge rationally; Bibliography; Index.

Electronic books.