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  • Genetically Edited Children and the Risks to Equality

    Examining Heritable Genome Editing in the Light of Social Justice

    par Trevor Stammers, Vicente Bellver Capella, Richard Playforth, David Albert Jones, Pia Matthews, Katie Hasson, Sandy Suffian, Britta C. van Beers, Laura Jacobs, Ben Hurlbut, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorders are not created — but at what cost to equality? If only certain kinds of people are brought into existence, do we risk undermining the very foundations of social justice?This groundbreaking volume brings together leading philosophical, ethical, and legal ... En savoir plus

    $48.79 CAD

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  • The Ethics of Generating Posthumans

    Philosophical and Theological Reflections on Bringing New Persons into Existence

    Modifié par Dr Calum MacKellar, Trevor Stammers ...
    Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence? And if so, could they be generated in a good and loving way? This study explores how society may respond to the actual generation of new kinds of persons from ethical, philosophical, and theological perspectives.Contributors to this volume address a number of essential questions, including the ethical ramifications of ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Christianity and the New Eugenics

    Should We Choose To Have Only Healthy Or Enhanced Children?

    par CALUM MACKELLAR ...
    What will it mean for society if science enables us to choose a future child whose health, athletic ability or intelligence is predetermined? This future is becoming ever more likely with the latest developments in human reproduction - but concerns are growing about the implications.New procedures making possible heritable genetic modifications such as genome editing open the door to 'sanitized' ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of the New Eugenics

    Modifié par Calum MacKellar, Christopher Bechtel ...
    Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Chimera's Children

    Ethical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human-Nonhuman Experimentation

    Modifié par David Albert Jones, Dr Calum MacKellar ...
    A comprehensive survey of the current context and ethical implications of human-nonhuman genetic combinations.The idea of human-nonhuman combinations has been a recurrent theme throughout the history of humanity. From the myths of the Minotaur and the centaurs in ancient Greece to the dogheads of the Middle Ages right through to the monsters of modern science fiction, these beings have always been ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

    Lessons from Belgium

    Modifié par David Albert Jones, Chris Gastmans, Calum MacKellar ...
    Collections Livre 42 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Examining the evidence from Belgium – one of only five countries where euthanasia is practised legally – an international panel of experts considers the implications of legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide. Looking at the issue from an international perspective, the authors have written an invaluable in-depth analysis of the ethical aspects of this complex area. The discussion forms a solid ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Cyborg Mind

    What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

    par Calum MacKellar ...
    With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace.In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invites society, as a ... En savoir plus

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  • Biotechnology and the Human Good

    par C. Ben Mitchell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, Scott B. Rae, Edmund D. Pellegrino ...
    Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences, at once predicted and unpredictable, beneficial and hazardous.Outcry over recent developments in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Missing Myth

    A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

    par Gilles Herrada ...
    If homosexual behavior is an aberration from the standpoint of reproduction, why is it widespread among humans, primates, and a myriad of other animal species, and why has it been favored by evolution? And if homosexuality is considered a moral problem based on religious beliefs, why were more homosexuals exterminated under the brief reigns of such secular regimes as the Communists and the Nazis ... En savoir plus

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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    par Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • On Human Nature

    par Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Moral Machines

    Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

    par Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen ...
    Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD