How to build a better human : an ethical blueprint / Gregory E. Pence.

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., [2012], ©2012.

x, 200 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What if your virtual life surpasses your real life? -- Lessons from the history of bioethics -- Expanding the mind -- Building better female bodies -- Building better male bodies -- Is it moral to feel better than well? -- Ways to build a longer life -- Is it wrong to live to one hundred? -- A better life with personalized genetics -- Building better kids: choosing embryos -- Eugenic abortions? -- Building better kids during gestation -- Building better kids: vaccinations -- Building better emerging minds: Adderall and Ritalin -- How not to think about genetic enhancement -- Five psychosocial objections to enhancing genes -- Cloning, primordial cells, enhancement -- Conclusions and six practical proposals.