
Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport
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The Pros and Cons of Enhancement
I'm all for the use of new genetic technologies to repair injury or to cure or prevent disease. What I've criticized is the use of biomedical technologies not for medical purposes, but for non-medical enhancements. These are the kinds of non-medical uses of genetic engineering that I've criticized. Health is about restoring or preserving normal human faculties which are a constitutive ingredient but a very limited part of the good life.
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