Ivan Domingues (org.)

Field: Philosophy
Collection: IEAT
ISBN: 9788542302387
Year | Edition: 2018 | 1st ed.
Pages: 382
Publisher: UFMG
Dimensions: 23 x 2 x 736 cm
Weight: 630 g

This fourth book from the Center for the Study of Contemporary Thought (NEPC) addresses the contemporary challenges of bioengineering and its human applications. The focus is on the risks that accompany it and the need to control them through regulations: primarily legal, but also political and ethical. The challenges and problems involved are diverse and all equally overwhelming, for example: the need to consider the technological and moral limits of assisted reproduction; the boundaries between the mechanical and the organic; the regulation of research into pharmaceuticals, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), gene therapies, and nanomedicines; new biotechnologies, the issue of eugenics, and the future (reengineering) of the human.