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Shaping Our Selves

Shaping Our Selves

Erik Parens

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Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
2016
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Ética médica y conducta profesional
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9780190645892
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When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness.

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