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Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future
Author(s) -
Lauritzen Paul
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2005.0026
Subject(s) - posthuman , environmental ethics , natural (archaeology) , human enhancement , human rights , stem cell , political science , sociology , engineering ethics , law , biology , epistemology , philosophy , engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , paleontology
If stem cell research led to therapies that changed the natural contours of human life, it would unsettle our ethical commitments, including the very notion of a human right, and encourage us to see the entire natural world, the human body along with it, as having the status only of material to be manipulated.