Benjamin Gregg

Creating Human Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781108841160
• ISBN-10: 1108841163
• Artikelnr.: 63700184

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Gregg is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Political Bioethics of Regulating Genetic Engineering: 1.
Regulation Guided by Proceduralism; 2. Regulation Guided by
Less-than-Universal Standards; 3. Regulation Guided by Human Nature as
Construction Not Essence; 4. Regulation Guided by Human Dignity as
Decisional Autonomy Not Essence; Part II. The Political Dimensions of
Engineering Intelligence: 5. Threshold Capacities for Political
Participation; 6. Political Capacity of Human Intelligence and the
Challenge of AI; 7. Political Ambiguity of Personalized Education Informed
by the Pupil's Genome; Part III. Inequality as Unintended Consequence
Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon: 8. A Human Right to Freedom from
Genetic Disability; 9. Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Responsibility for
Health Inequalities; 10. Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the
Anthropocene; Coda: Bioethics as Political Theory.