Walter Glannon

Genes And Future People (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical Issues In Human Genetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to move philosophers, bioethicists, and readers in general to reflect on the extent to which genes determine our identities as persons, the quality of our lives, our moral obligations to future generations of people and whether we are healthy or diseased.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429968785
• Artikelnr.: 54128489

Autorenporträt

Walter Glannon received a BA from Duke University, a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University. He has been a Killam Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association, and a Fellow at the MacLean centre for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. He is Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and Clinical Ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Reach of Genes: Biology, Metaphysics, Morality
2 Genetic Information, Obligation, and the Prevention of Lives
3 Gene Therapy and Genetic Enhancement
4 The Morality of Human Cloning
5 Extending the Human Life Span