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16 produkter
Shaping Our Selves
On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking
Av Erik Parens
Inbunden, 2014
968 kr
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When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or …
Shaping Our Selves
On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking
Av Erik Parens
E-bok, 2014
359 kr
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When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or …
Shaping Our Selves
On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking
Av Erik Parens
E-bok, 2014
359 kr
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When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or …
Shaping Our Selves
On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking
Av Erik Parens
Häftad, 2016
503 kr
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When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or …
Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Av Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, …
Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Av Josephine Johnston, Erik Parens
E-bok, 2019
370 kr
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International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, …
Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Av Josephine Johnston, Erik Parens
E-bok, 2019
370 kr
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International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, …
The Art of Flourishing
Conversations on Disability
Av Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
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Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should …
The Art of Flourishing
Conversations on Disability
Av Liz Bowen, Liz Bowen m. fl.
Häftad, 2028
198 kr
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Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should …
Art of Flourishing
Conversations on Disability
Av Erik Parens, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
205 kr
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Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should …
Art of Flourishing
Conversations on Disability
Av Erik Parens, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
199 kr
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Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should …
Enhancing Human Traits
Ethical and Social Implications
Av Erik Parens
Häftad, 2000
447 kr
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In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications of new biotechnologies that are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual's mental and physical attributes in ways previously only imagined. …
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights
Häftad, 2000
821 kr
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As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care - it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science …
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights
E-bok, 2000
783 kr
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As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care—it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science should …
Surgically Shaping Children
Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality
Av Erik Parens
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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At a time when medical technologies make it ever easier to enhance our minds and bodies, a debate has arisen about whether such efforts promote a process of "normalization," which makes it ever harder to tolerate the natural anatomical differences among us. The debate becomes especially complicated …
Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation
Av Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
274 kr
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Hardly a month goes by without a media report proclaiming that researchers have discovered the gene for some complex human behavior or trait-intelligence, dyslexia, shyness, homosexuality. The practical implications of genetic research can bring great good-relieving parents of self-blame for a …
