Bioscience and the good life /:
The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Science, ethics & society.
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| Zusammenfassung: | The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us. |
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| 505 | 8 | |a The character of the sportBecoming a blade-runner; On me, not in me; Other objections; Body modification and the good life; Notes; Chapter 6 Thinking Better about Better Thinking; Enhancing memory; Out of our heads; Criminal detection: A duty to remember?; Memory and absentmindedness; Enhancing processing; The argument from alienation; The social benefits of cognitive enhancement; The benefits of distraction; Alienation revisited; The case for cognitive enhancement: Not wholly proven; Notes; Chapter 7 Good Is as Good Does? The Case of 'Moral Enhancement' | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The possibility of 'moral enhancement'Strategies for moral enhancement; The argument from freedom; Freedom and options; Nicomachean moral enhancement; Rebuilding the argument from freedom; The argument from reasonable disagreement; Enhancing moral reasoning; Is moral enhancement desirable anyway?; Notes; Chapter 8 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 1: Ways to Make Life Better; Is there a duty of beneficence?; Beneficence, benefit and obligation; What would be beneficial research?; The argument from incommensurability; The argument from anthropology; Ecology and economy. | |
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| spelling | Brassington, Iain, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006042891 Bioscience and the good life / Iain Brassington. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Science Ethics and Society Print version record. Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB. Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Good of Bioscience; Understanding the good life; Happiness and flourishing; The importance of projects; Function and the good life; The reasonable expectation standard; Rebooting the therapy/enhancement distinction; Closing the distinction?; The structure of this book; Notes; Chapter 2 Bad Arguments against Better Lives; Repugnance as a moral tool; Nature and human nature; Habermas' future; The argument from dignity; A slight reprieve?; The mythologization of the given; Is enhancement permissible?; Notes. Chapter 3 Must We Make Better People?John Harris' argument for a duty to enhance; Harris' argument; Why would enhancement be a duty?; Beneficence and duties to enhance; What is enhancement?; What is 'acceptable'?; A duty to enhance?; Notes; Chapter 4 Sex, Death and Cabbages: A Defence of Mortality; Defending against death; Avoiding deaths and saving lives; What's wrong with mortality ; Why not be immortal?; Self-inflicted boredom?; Filling a life, and the LOT revisited; Mortality and the good life; The boon of mortality; Notes; Chapter 5 Designs for Life; Enhancement in sport. The character of the sportBecoming a blade-runner; On me, not in me; Other objections; Body modification and the good life; Notes; Chapter 6 Thinking Better about Better Thinking; Enhancing memory; Out of our heads; Criminal detection: A duty to remember?; Memory and absentmindedness; Enhancing processing; The argument from alienation; The social benefits of cognitive enhancement; The benefits of distraction; Alienation revisited; The case for cognitive enhancement: Not wholly proven; Notes; Chapter 7 Good Is as Good Does? The Case of 'Moral Enhancement' The possibility of 'moral enhancement'Strategies for moral enhancement; The argument from freedom; Freedom and options; Nicomachean moral enhancement; Rebuilding the argument from freedom; The argument from reasonable disagreement; Enhancing moral reasoning; Is moral enhancement desirable anyway?; Notes; Chapter 8 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 1: Ways to Make Life Better; Is there a duty of beneficence?; Beneficence, benefit and obligation; What would be beneficial research?; The argument from incommensurability; The argument from anthropology; Ecology and economy. Is there a duty to research?Notes; Chapter 9 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 2: Non-Beneficent Arguments; Formulating the duty to research; The prevention and causation argument; The argument from rescue; The argument from filial piety; The free rider argument; Fairness and the future; Reason and obligation; A puzzle about duties; Notes; 9-and-a-bit Bioscience and the Good Life; Note; Bibliography; Index. The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us. Life sciences Social aspects. Well-being. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001941 Bioethics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014136 Philosophy and the life sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000338 Biotechnology Social aspects. Sciences de la vie Aspect social. Bien-être. Biotechnologie Aspect social. Philosophie et sciences de la vie. comfort (sensation) aat SOCIAL SCIENCE General. bisacsh Bioethics fast Biotechnology Social aspects fast Life sciences Social aspects fast Philosophy and the life sciences fast Well-being fast has work: Bioscience and the good life (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGF4rKpKWxtjtKWR9gQYvb https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Harris, John. Bioscience and the Good Life. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2013 9781849663380 Science, ethics & society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012015295 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=657828 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Brassington, Iain Bioscience and the good life / Science, ethics & society. Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Good of Bioscience; Understanding the good life; Happiness and flourishing; The importance of projects; Function and the good life; The reasonable expectation standard; Rebooting the therapy/enhancement distinction; Closing the distinction?; The structure of this book; Notes; Chapter 2 Bad Arguments against Better Lives; Repugnance as a moral tool; Nature and human nature; Habermas' future; The argument from dignity; A slight reprieve?; The mythologization of the given; Is enhancement permissible?; Notes. Chapter 3 Must We Make Better People?John Harris' argument for a duty to enhance; Harris' argument; Why would enhancement be a duty?; Beneficence and duties to enhance; What is enhancement?; What is 'acceptable'?; A duty to enhance?; Notes; Chapter 4 Sex, Death and Cabbages: A Defence of Mortality; Defending against death; Avoiding deaths and saving lives; What's wrong with mortality ; Why not be immortal?; Self-inflicted boredom?; Filling a life, and the LOT revisited; Mortality and the good life; The boon of mortality; Notes; Chapter 5 Designs for Life; Enhancement in sport. The character of the sportBecoming a blade-runner; On me, not in me; Other objections; Body modification and the good life; Notes; Chapter 6 Thinking Better about Better Thinking; Enhancing memory; Out of our heads; Criminal detection: A duty to remember?; Memory and absentmindedness; Enhancing processing; The argument from alienation; The social benefits of cognitive enhancement; The benefits of distraction; Alienation revisited; The case for cognitive enhancement: Not wholly proven; Notes; Chapter 7 Good Is as Good Does? The Case of 'Moral Enhancement' The possibility of 'moral enhancement'Strategies for moral enhancement; The argument from freedom; Freedom and options; Nicomachean moral enhancement; Rebuilding the argument from freedom; The argument from reasonable disagreement; Enhancing moral reasoning; Is moral enhancement desirable anyway?; Notes; Chapter 8 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 1: Ways to Make Life Better; Is there a duty of beneficence?; Beneficence, benefit and obligation; What would be beneficial research?; The argument from incommensurability; The argument from anthropology; Ecology and economy. Is there a duty to research?Notes; Chapter 9 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 2: Non-Beneficent Arguments; Formulating the duty to research; The prevention and causation argument; The argument from rescue; The argument from filial piety; The free rider argument; Fairness and the future; Reason and obligation; A puzzle about duties; Notes; 9-and-a-bit Bioscience and the Good Life; Note; Bibliography; Index. Life sciences Social aspects. Well-being. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001941 Bioethics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014136 Philosophy and the life sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000338 Biotechnology Social aspects. Sciences de la vie Aspect social. Bien-être. Biotechnologie Aspect social. Philosophie et sciences de la vie. comfort (sensation) aat SOCIAL SCIENCE General. bisacsh Bioethics fast Biotechnology Social aspects fast Life sciences Social aspects fast Philosophy and the life sciences fast Well-being fast |
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| title_full | Bioscience and the good life / Iain Brassington. |
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| topic | Life sciences Social aspects. Well-being. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001941 Bioethics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014136 Philosophy and the life sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000338 Biotechnology Social aspects. Sciences de la vie Aspect social. Bien-être. Biotechnologie Aspect social. Philosophie et sciences de la vie. comfort (sensation) aat SOCIAL SCIENCE General. bisacsh Bioethics fast Biotechnology Social aspects fast Life sciences Social aspects fast Philosophy and the life sciences fast Well-being fast |
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