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Better than Human

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Better than Human

By Allen (Duke University) Buchanan

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About the book

In Better than Human?, noted bioethicist Allen Buchanan grapples with the ethical dilemmas of the medical revolution now upon us. Biomedical enhancements, he writes, can make us smarter, have better memories, be stronger, quicker, have more stamina, live much longer, be more resistant to disease and to the frailties of aging, and enjoy richer emotional lives. They can even improve our character, or at least strengthen our powers of self-control. In spite of the benefits that biomedical enhanceme...Show more

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9780190664046

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2017

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1

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Better than Human

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Paperback

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