Opis: Humanity Enhanced - Blackford Russell

Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford eschews the heated rhetoric that surrounds genetic enhancement technologies to examine them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal democracy. Blackford argues that the challenge is not, as commonly supposed, the urgent need for a strict regulatory action. Rather, the challenge is that fear of these technologies has created an atmosphere in which liberal tolerance itself is threatened.

Focusing on reproductive cloning, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos, and genetic engineering, Blackford takes on objections to enhancement technologies (raised by Jürgen Habermas and others) based on such concerns as individual autonomy and distributive justice. He argues that some enhancements would be genuinely beneficial, and that it would be justified in some circumstances even to exert pressure on parents to undertake genetic modification of embryos. Blackford argues against draconian suppression of human enhancement, although he acknowledges that some specific and limited regulation may be required in the future. More generally, he argues, liberal democracies would demonstrate liberal values by tolerating and accepting the emerging technologies of genetic choice.

Szczegóły: Humanity Enhanced - Blackford Russell

Tytuł: Humanity Enhanced
Podtytuł: Genetic Choice and the Challlenge for Liberal Democracies
Autor: Blackford Russell
Wydawnictwo: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262026611
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2014
Ilość stron: 234
Format: 15.5x23.5cm
Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
Waga: 0.458 kg

Recenzje: Humanity Enhanced - Blackford Russell