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Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:55 AM<br>Subject: [GRG] NewBook: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement<br>To: Gerontology Research Group <<a href="mailto:grg@lists.ucla.edu">grg@lists.ucla.edu</a>><br>Cc: Humanity+ <<a href="mailto:Humanity@mail.vresp.com">Humanity@mail.vresp.com</a>>, "Allen E. Buchanan, Ph.D." <<a href="mailto:allenb@duke.edu">allenb@duke.edu</a>><br>
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<font size="3">To Members and Friends of the Los Angeles Gerontology
Research Group:<br><br>
This
sounds like our sort of book that will provide us with the arguments we
need <br>
to refute our evangelical adversaries, providing that they are even
willing to listen to reason.<br><br>
Happy New Year, <br><br>
Steve Coles<br><br>
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Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement (Uehiro Series in
Practical Ethics)</a> <br>
</blockquote></font><font size="2"><b>by</b></font><font size="3"><br>
Allen E. Buchanan <br>
(Oxford University Press, New York;<b> </b>January 15, 2011)
</font><font size="3" color="#0000ff"><u>Amazon.com</u></font><font size="3">
Price: $35.00 <br><br>
</font><font size="5"><b>Description:</b></font><font size="3"><br><br>
Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have
better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer,
be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some
of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful.
In<i> Beyond Humanity </i>a leading philosopher offers a powerful and
controversial exploration of urgent ethical issues concerning human
enhancement. These raise enduring questions about what it is to be human,
about individuality, about our relationship to nature, and about what
sort of society we should strive to have. Allen Buchanan urges that the
debate about enhancement needs to be informed by a proper understanding
of evolutionary biology, which has discredited the simplistic conceptions
of human nature used by many opponents of enhancement. He argues that
there are powerful reasons for us to embark on the enhancement
enterprise, and no objections to enhancement that are sufficient to
outweigh them. <br>
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About the Author:</b></h3><font size="3"><br><br>
Allen Buchanan is Professor of Philosophy at Duke
University. He is the author of <i>Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use
of Force; Justice and Health Care; and Justice, Legitimacy, and
Self-Determination.<br>
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Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group<br>
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