Agar, Nicholas
Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s 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.
- Considers real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to have.
- Uses ‘moral images’ as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmas.
- Provides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the book suitable for readers with no knowledge of genetics.
- Creates a moral framework for assessing all new technologies.
- Author(s)
- Agar, Nicholas
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 216 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470777572
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405123907
