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Author: Maxwell J. Mehlman (Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.658kg
ISBN: 9780801892639
ISBN 10: 0801892635
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 September 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In his highly readable and especially timely new book, The Price of Perfection, Mehlman makes it clear that he is not at all persuaded that the ethical response to the availability of performance-enhancing drugs in sports-or elsewhere in society, for that matter-is to ban them and then spend a lot of effort testing for those who use them anyway. -- Arthur Caplan Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2009 Bioethicists, as well as policy makers and the public, must think more often and more deeply about science's rapidly growing ability to improve human functioning. But what is present in The Price of Perfection, and sufficiently inspiring, is a well-balanced and well-documented look at how we now are positioned (at least in the United States) to control this process, and what some of the pros and cons of enlarging control, or alternatively loosening it, might be -- Anita Silvers International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2011
In his highly readable and especially timely new book, The Price of Perfection, Mehlman makes it clear that he is not at all persuaded that the ethical response to the availability of performance-enhancing drugs in sports-or elsewhere in society, for that matter-is to ban them and then spend a lot of effort testing for those who use them anyway. -- Arthur Caplan * Perspectives in Biology and Medicine * Bioethicists, as well as policy makers and the public, must think more often and more deeply about science's rapidly growing ability to improve human functioning. But what is present in The Price of Perfection, and sufficiently inspiring, is a well-balanced and well-documented look at how we now are positioned (at least in the United States) to control this process, and what some of the pros and cons of enlarging control, or alternatively loosening it, might be. -- Anita Silvers * International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics *
In his highly readable and especially timely new book, The Price of Perfection, Mehlman makes it clear that he is not at all persuaded that the ethical response to the availability of performance-enhancing drugs in sports-or elsewhere in society, for that matter-is to ban them and then spend a lot of effort testing for those who use them anyway. -- Arthur Caplan Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2009 Bioethicists, as well as policy makers and the public, must think more often and more deeply about science's rapidly growing ability to improve human functioning. But what is present in The Price of Perfection, and sufficiently inspiring, is a well-balanced and well-documented look at how we now are positioned (at least in the United States) to control this process, and what some of the pros and cons of enlarging control, or alternatively loosening it, might be. -- Anita Silvers International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2011
Author Information
Maxwell J. Mehlman is the Petersilge Professor of Law and director of the Law-Medicine Center in the School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, where he is also a professor of bioethics in the School of Medicine and the associate director for public policy in the Center for Genetics Research, Ethics, and Law. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several books on medical ethics and genetics, including Wondergenes; The Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology; and Access to the Genome.
