In defense of posthuman dignity

Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 202-214

  Bostrom, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHICS; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; CLONING, ORGANISM; DECISION MAKING; DEHUMANIZATION; FORECASTING; FREEDOM; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; PARENTS; PREJUDICE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 20944441919     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00437.x     Document Type: Review

References (12)

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3. L. Kass. Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Perfection. The New Atlantis 2003; 1.
4. See e.g. J. Glover. 2001. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven. Yale University Press.
5. L. Kass. 2002. Life, Liberty, and Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. San Francisco. Encounter Books: p. 48.
6. G. Annas, L. Andrews & R. Isasi. Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations. American Journal of Law and Medicine 2002; 28, 2&3: p. 162.
7. J. A. Simpson and E. Weiner, eds. 1989. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
8. F. Fukuyama. 2002. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: p. 149.
9. Fukuyama, op cit. note 8, p. 160.
10. H. Jonas. 1985. Technik, Medizin und Ethik: Zur Praxis des Prinzips Verantwortung. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp.
11. J. Habermas. 2003. The Future of Human Nature. Oxford. Blackwell: p. 23.
12. For their comments I am grateful to Heather Bradshaw, John Brooke, Aubrey de Grey, Robin Hanson, Matthew Liao, Julian Savulescu, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Zangwill, and to the audiences at the Ian Ramsey Center seminar of June 6th in Oxford 2003, the Transvision 2003 conference at Yale, and the 2003 European Science Foundation Workshop on Science and Human Values, where earlier versions of this paper were presented, and to two anonymous referees.