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Liberal Eugenics

Nicholas Agar

  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • EAN: 9781405123907
In Defence of Human Enhancement
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:08 oktober 2004
Aantal pagina's:216
Illustraties:Nee
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Hoofdauteur:Nicholas Agar
Tweede Auteur:Agar
Hoofduitgeverij:Wiley-Blackwell
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Editie:New title
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product hoogte:19 mm
Product lengte:222 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:153 mm
Verpakking hoogte:17 mm
Verpakking lengte:228 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:326 g


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* A provocative defence of the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's genetic characteristics. * Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past. * Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view.

Public debate about the use of genetic technology is dominated by fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New World’ or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past. In this controversial book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defuses these anxieties and defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s genetic characteristics.


Agar describes three technologies that may soon make liberal eugenics a practical possibility – cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, genomics, and genetic engineering – and argues that parents can use these technologies to realize their procreative goals without harming the people they will bring into existence. He rejects the idea that eugenics need divide society into genetic haves and have-nots, and denies that social pressures need force eugenic choices to converge on a single view of human excellence, suggesting that these threats to liberal social arrangements can be resisted.