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Humanity Enhanced Genetic Choice and the Challlenge for Liberal Democracies

Russell Blackford
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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.

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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product książka / book
Dział / Department Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
Autor / Author Russell Blackford
Tytuł / Title Humanity Enhanced
Podtytuł / Subtitle Genetic Choice and the Challlenge for Liberal Democracies
Język / Language angielski
Wydawca / Publisher MIT Press
Rok wydania / Published in year 2014
Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type Twarda z obwolutą
Wymiary / Size 15.5x23.5
Liczba stron / Number of pages 234
Ciężar / Weight 0.458 kg
   
ISBN 9780262026611 (9780262026611)
EAN/UPC 9780262026611
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