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245 00 a| Enhancing human traits :b| ethical and social implications /c| edited by Erik Parens.;

260 a| Washington, D.C. :b| Georgetown University Press,c| 1998.;

300 a| x, 258 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Hastings Center studies in ethics;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

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650 0 a| Medical innovationsx| Social aspects.=| ^A7232;

650 0 a| Psychotropic drugsx| Moral and ethical aspects.=| ^A292;

650 0 a| Surgery, Plasticx| Moral and ethical aspects.=| ^A625;

650 0 a| Performance technologyx| Moral and ethical aspects.=| ^A353554;

700 1 a| Parens, Erik,d| 1957-=| ^A422135;

830 0 a| Hastings Center studies in ethics.=| ^A374714;

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Enhancing human traits : ethical and social implications / edited by Erik Parens.

Other author	Parens, Erik, 1957-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1998.
Description	x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects. Medical innovations--Social aspects. Psychotropic drugs--Moral and ethical aspects. Surgery, Plastic--Moral and ethical aspects. Performance technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Series	Hastings Center studies in ethics Hastings Center studies in ethics. ^A374714
Contents	Is better always good? the enhancement project / Erik Parens -- What does enhancement mean? / Eric T. Juengst -- Enhancements of human function : some distinctions for policymakers / Dan W. Brock -- Treatment-enhancement distinction as an armament in the policy wars / David M. Frankford -- Fatal attraction to normalizing : treating disabilities as deviations from "species-typical" functioning / Anita Silvers -- Rhetoric of cosmetic surgery : luxury or welfare? / Kathy Davis -- Aspirin for the mind? some ethical worries about psychopharmacology / Carol Freedman -- Do means matter / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Cosmetic surgery, suspect norms, and the ethics of complicity / Margaret Olivia Little -- Tyranny of happiness : ethics and cosmetic psychopharmacology / Carl Elliot -- Braveheart, Babe, and the contemporary body / Susan Bordo -- Enhancements and the ethical significance of vulnerability / Gerald P. McKenny -- Devices and desires of our own hearts / Mary G. Winkler.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	98016197
ISBN	0878407030

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