Matti Häyry

Rationality and the Genetic Challenge

Making People Better?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Matti H yry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780521757133
• ISBN-10: 0521757134
• Artikelnr.: 28526201

Autorenporträt

Matti Häyry is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at the University of Manchester and Professorial Fellow at the University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Seven ways of making people better
2. Rational approaches to the genetic challenge
3. The best babies and parental responsibility
4. Deaf embryos, morality, and the law
5. Saviour siblings and treating people as a means
6. Reproductive cloning and designing human beings
7. Embryonic stem cells, vulnerability, and sanctity
8. Gene therapies, hopes, and fears
9. Considerable life extension and the meaning of life
10. Taking the genetic challenge rationally.