NORMAL HUMAN VARIATION: REFOCUSSING THE ENHANCEMENT DEBATE.
This article draws attention to several common mistakes in thinking about biomedical enhancement, mistakes that are made even by some supporters of enhancement. We illustrate these mistakes by examining objections that John Harris has recently raised against the use of pharmacological interventions...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 133 - 144 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2015
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