Descriere: In depth interviews by award-winning science writer David Jay Brown with Andrew Weil, Jack Kevorkian, Bernie Siegel, Barry Sears, Larry Dossey, Ray Kurzweil, Michael West, Leonard Hayflick, Kary Mullis, Aubrey de Grey, Peter Duesberg, Raphael Mechoulam, Rick Strassmann, Michael Fossel, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, Joseph Knoll, John Guerin, Garry Gordon, Jonathan Wright, and others about alternative medicine, euthanasia. mind/body medicine, diet, spirituality and health, regenerative medicine, nutritional supplements, longevity research, cannabinoid medicine and medical marijuana, psychedelic drug research, chelation therapy, nanotechnology, and more.
Autori: David Jay Brown (Author) | Editura: AVON BOOKS | Anul aparitiei: 2006 | ISBN: 9781890572198 | Categorie: Medical
Allen E. Buchanan
Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful. In Beyond Humanity a leading philosopher offers a powerful and controversial exploration of urgent ethical issues concerning human enhancement. These raise enduring questions about what it is to be human, about individuality, about our relationship to nature, and about what sort of society we should strive to have. Allen E. Buchanan urges that the debate about enhancement needs to be informed by a proper understanding of evolutionary biology, which has discredited the simplistic conceptions of human nature used by many opponents of enhancement. He argues that there are powerful reasons for us to embark on the enhancement enterprise, and no objections to enhancement that are sufficient to outweigh them.
Freddy M. Kaltenborn
Tony Grice, Antoniette Meehan
A new, up-to-date course where students learn what they need to know for a career in commerce, tourism, nursing, or technology.