Benjamin Gregg (Austin University of Texas)

Creating Human Nature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is addressed to the citizens of a liberal democratic political community confronted by the unprecedented challenges of deciding difficult and controversial issues generated by technical possibilities, flowing from rapid developments in biology, medicine, and biotechnology, for editing the human genome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781108789714
• ISBN-10: 1108789714
• Artikelnr.: 63700521

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.