Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
The desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In this chapter, we will distinguish different forms of enhancement – for example, environmental, biochemical, and genetic i...
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| description | The desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In this chapter, we will distinguish different forms of enhancement – for example, environmental, biochemical, and genetic interventions aimed at improving existing capacities. But we will focus on genetic enhancement. We will ask whether there is any interesting difference between treating diseases and enhancing existing capacities. We will discuss reasons people may have to enhance their children, and moral concerns that opponents of enhancement have expressed, such as discrimination against disabled or unenhanced people in a world in which enhancement is common. Finally, we will address how to think about human enhancement from a social standpoint, where each person's choices to enhance themselves or their children has network effects on the human population as a whole. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1216482025-03-12T16:01:39Z Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement Anomaly, Jonny Johnson, Tess Ethics, genetic enhancement, biomedical, bioethics, treatment, medical, health, disability bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy The desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In this chapter, we will distinguish different forms of enhancement – for example, environmental, biochemical, and genetic interventions aimed at improving existing capacities. But we will focus on genetic enhancement. We will ask whether there is any interesting difference between treating diseases and enhancing existing capacities. We will discuss reasons people may have to enhance their children, and moral concerns that opponents of enhancement have expressed, such as discrimination against disabled or unenhanced people in a world in which enhancement is common. Finally, we will address how to think about human enhancement from a social standpoint, where each person's choices to enhance themselves or their children has network effects on the human population as a whole. 2023-11-17T08:22:55Z 2023-11-17T08:22:55Z 2023-10-30T14:17:24Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77047 9780367615796 9780367615819 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121648 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77047/1/9781003105596_10.4324_9781003105596-14.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77047/1/9781003105596_10.4324_9781003105596-14.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77047/1/9781003105596_10.4324_9781003105596-14.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003105596-14 10.4324/9781003105596-14 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement University of Oxford fd53808a-cdec-480e-bf85-f52973f603b7 9780367615796 9780367615819 Routledge 10 open access |
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