Liberal Eugenics
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Liberal Eugenics

In Defence of Human Enhancement

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Liberal Eugenics

In Defence of Human Enhancement

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About This Book

In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.

  • Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past
  • Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view
  • Considers real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to have
  • Uses 'moral images' as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmas
  • Provides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the book suitable for readers with no knowledge of genetics
  • Creates a moral framework for assessing all new technologies

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780470777572

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface and Acknowledgements
  3. 1 Genius Sperm, Eugenics and Enhancement Technologies
  4. 2 A Pragmatic Optimism about Enhancement Technologies
  5. 3 Making Moral Images of Biotechnology
  6. 4 The Moral Image of Therapy
  7. 5 The Moral Image of Nature
  8. 6 The Moral Image of Nurture
  9. 7 Our Postliberal Future?
  10. 8 Enhanced Humans When?
  11. Notes
  12. Further Reading
  13. References
  14. Index