Moral Bioenhancement for Social Welfare: Are Civic Institutions Ready?
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1 Philosophy and Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, New York, NY, United States, 2 Philosophy, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, United States, 3Neuroethics Studies Program-Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States, 4Department of Neurology and Department of Biochemistry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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The ethical desirability of moral bioenhancement: a review of reasons
BACKGROUND The debate on the ethical aspects of moral bioenhancement focuses on the desirability of using biomedical as opposed to traditional means to achieve moral betterment. The aim of this paper is to systematically review the ethical reasons presented in the literature for and against moral bioenhancement. DISCUSSION A review was performed and resulted in the inclusion of 85 articles. W...
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