The hermeneutic challenge of genetic engineering: Habermas and the transhumanists

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-167

  Edgar, Andrew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonisation of the lifeworld; Dialectic of enlightenment; Genetic engineering; Genomics; Transhumanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CONFLICT; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; HUMANISM; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIOETHICS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICAL THEORY; EUGENICS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANISM; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL VALUES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 64649089012     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-009-9188-9     Document Type: Article

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