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Can I read Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics, Series Number 11) on EtoBox?
Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics, Series Number 11) by Matti Häyry is a law available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics, Series Number 11) about?
Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Häyry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enhancements. The ethical questions explored include parental responsibility, the use of people as means, the role of hope and fear in risk assessment, and the dignity and meaning of life. Taking as a starting point the arguments presented by Jonathan Glover
Who reads Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? (Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics, Series Number 11)?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Matti Häyry
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521757133
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Medical, Business, Engineering
- Updated
- 2026-03-16
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