Rationality and the Genetic Challenge - Making People Better?

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Matti H yry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it. Zusammenfassung Should we make people healthier, smarter and longer-lived if medical advances enable us to do so? In the context of developments such as genetic testing, stem cell research and gene therapy, Matti Häyry explores topics including parental responsibility, the use of people as means and the dignity of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Matti H¿y, Matti Hayry, Matti (University of Manchester) Hayry, Matti Häyry
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521757133
• ISBN: 978-0-521-75713-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Law, Medicine and Et; Cambridge Law, Medicine and Et; Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law