Enhancement and Desire: Japanese Qualms about Where Biotechnology is Taking Us
| Autor: | William R. LaFleur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Culture Buddhism Prudence Cosmetic Techniques 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan Religion and Science Humans East Asia 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology media_common Health Policy Religion and Medicine Eyelids Environmental ethics 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Biomedical Enhancement Issues ethics and legal aspects Law Spite Female 060301 applied ethics Psychosocial |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 36:65-72 |
| ISSN: | 1748-720X 1073-1105 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.00238.x |
| Popis: | In what follows, I draw on things I have found in Japanese discussions of bioethics in order to clarify some aspects of the ethics of biotechnological enhancement. In doing so it will, I hope, become evident that what we might call a “religious” component is in Japan somewhat differently construed than in the contexts with which we are more likely to be familiar in North America. And in the end an attempt will be made here to show that the materials considered give us all – not just the Japanese – reasons for going forward with biological enhancement technologies only on condition that extreme caution be exercised. The fast-moving, oncoming traffic in this domain ought to be forced, these materials suggest, to come up to a caution-demanding signal – not a green light but one that is unambiguously amber. Caution and perhaps even a full stop appear to be in order. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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