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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Genius Sperm, Eugenics and Enhancement Technologies; 2 A Pragmatic Optimism about Enhancement Technologies; 3 Making Moral Images of Biotechnology; 4 The Moral Image of Therapy; 5 The Moral Image of Nature; 6 The Moral Image of Nurture; 7 Our Postliberal Future?; 8 Enhanced Humans When?; Notes; Further Reading; References; Index
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 pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of viewConsiders real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to haveUses 'moral images' as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmasProvides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the book suitable for readers wi