Liberal eugenics
in defence of human enhancement
by Nicholas Agar
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"In this book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defuses 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."--Jacket.
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
2014, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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1444326708 9781444326703
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
2010, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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1444326236 9781444326239
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
2008, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
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0470775009 9780470775004
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in /languages/eng
0470777575 9780470777572
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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0470760680 9780470760680
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Liberal eugenics: in defence of human enhancement
2005, Blackwell Pub.
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1405123893 9781405123891
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
November 1, 2004, Blackwell Publishing Limited
Hardcover
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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement
November 1, 2004, Blackwell Publishing Limited
Paperback
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