Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies

by Russell Blackford

An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.

Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford eschews the heated rhetoric that surrounds genetic enhancement technologies to examine them in the context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026619
• ISBN13: 9780262026611
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher