How to build a better human : an ethical blueprint / Gregory E. Pence.
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub.,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- What if your virtual life surpasses your real life?
- Lessons from the history of bioethics
- Expanding the mind
- Building better female bodies
- Building better male bodies
- Is it moral to feel better than well?
- Ways to build a longer life
- Is it wrong to live to one hundred?
- A better life with personalized genetics
- Building better kids: choosing embryos
- Eugenic abortions?
- Building better kids during gestation
- Building better kids: vaccinations
- Building better emerging minds: Adderall and Ritalin
- How not to think about genetic enhancement
- Five psychosocial objections to enhancing genes
- Cloning, primordial cells, enhancement
- Conclusions and six practical proposals.