The Bioethics of Space Exploration
Human Enhancement and Gene Editing in Future Space Missions
$83.49
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2023
Summary
The first book devoted to the bioethics of the space-mission environment, The Bioethics of Space Exploration explores the ethical status of possible biomedical challenges in future long-term space missions. Konrad Szocik thoroughly examines arguments favoring and opposing human enhancement, accompanied by somatic and germline gene editing, methodology of space-mission bioethics, and moral bioenhancement.
In particular, the three main types of space missions—scientific mission…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197628478 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197628478 |
| Author: | Konrad Szocik |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 164mm x 237mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Konrad Szocik
Konrad Szocik is a visiting fellow at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and an assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland. His research interests include philosophy, ethics, and bioethics of space exploration, human enhancement, feminism, and selected issues on the border of futures studies and technology.
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