Enhancing Evolution The Ethical Case for Making Better People

Name: Enhancing Evolution The Ethical Case for Making Better People
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ISBN: 9780691148168

ISBN-10: 0691148163

ISBN-13: 9780691148168

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: John Harris, John Harris

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InEnhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement.Enhancing Evolutiondefends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV/AIDS. Further, Harris champions the possibility of influencing the very course of evolution to give us…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

John Harris is the Lord David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester School of Law, joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and a member of Britain's Human Genetics Commission. His many books include "On Cloning and Clones, Genes, and Immortality".