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The Biological Foundations of Bioethics The Biological Foundations of Bioethics Tim Lewens 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #inthisvolumeTimLewens2015 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2015 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014944410 ISBN 978–0–19–871265–7 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. For Emma Acknowledgements Theessayscollectedinthisvolumewerewrittenbetween2001and2014. Notesineachchapteracknowledgethepeoplewhowerekindenoughto read and comment on particular pieces of work. I also have debts of amoregeneralsorttocolleagues andfriends whohavehelpedmeover longer stretches of time. Within Cambridge I have learned most about the issues examined here from Joanna Burch-Brown, Nick Jardine, Stephen John, Elselijn Kingma, Kathy Liddell, Hallvard Lillehammer, the late Peter Lipton, Neil Manson, Onora O’Neill, Martin Peterson, Martin Richards, Alix Rogers, and Ron Zimmern. I also owe much to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science as a whole (and therebytoJohnForrester,TamaraHug,andDavidThompson,whohave madetheinstitutionrunsosmoothly),andtoClareCollege. Since 2009 I have had the wonderful experience of working as a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. While I have benefited immeasurably from the knowledge of other members of the Council, I am especially grateful to Laura Riley, Hugh Whittall, and Katharine Wright,who,asmembersoftheCouncil’sdistinguishedsecretariat,have deftly helped steer the two working parties I have been involved with, and who have taught me about human bodies and mitochondrial ther- apiesintheprocess. PeterMomtchiloffatOxfordUniversityPresshasbeensupportiveand efficient throughout the process of putting this book together, and an externalreaderforOUPofferedvaluableandgenerouscommentsonthe newerpartsofthemanuscript.Workonsomeofthemiddlechaptersof this book was supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the IsaacNewtonTrust.IamalsogratefultotheEuropeanResearchCoun- cil, whose generous funding under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (ERC Grant agreement no. 284123) gave me thetimetowriteallofthemorerecentchapters(1,4,5,6,and11),andto compilethemintotheformpresentedhere.Forhelpwithallthesetasks, fromresearchtoredaction,IhaveaconsiderabledebttoBethHannon,a farmoreaccomplishedcolleaguethananyonecouldreasonablyhopefor. Finally, Emma Gilby, to whom these pages are dedicated, has enriched myworkandmuchmorebesides. Texts and Permissions Previouslypublishedarticleshavebeenchangedonlyincosmeticwaysto correct typographical errors and to ensure consistency in style. I am grateful to the following presses for permissions to re-use my earlier workinthisbook: ToBMJPublishingGroupforpermissiontore-use‘Enhancementand HumanNature:TheCaseofSandel’,firstpublishedinJournalofMedical Ethics35(2009),pp.354–6. ToTaylorandFrancisforpermissiontore-use‘TheRisksofProgress: Precaution and the Case of Human Enhancement’, first published in JournalofRiskResearch13(2010),pp.207–16. ToSpringerforpermissiontore-use‘HumanNature:TheVeryIdea’, firstpublishedinPhilosophyandTechnology25(2012),pp.459–74. To Elsevier for permission to re-use ‘From Bricolage to BiobricksTM: Synthetic Biology and Rational Design’, first published in Studies in History andPhilosophyof Biological andBiomedical Sciences 44(2013), pp. 641–8; and ‘Development Aid: On Ontogeny and Ethics’,first pub- lishedinStudiesinHistoryandPhilosophyofBiologicalandBiomedical Sciences33(2002),pp.195–217. ToCambridgeUniversityPressforpermissiontore-use‘Prospectsfor EvolutionaryPolicy’,firstpublishedinPhilosophy78(2003),pp.496–514. To John Wiley and Sons for permission to re-use ‘What are Natural Inequalities?’, first published in Philosophical Quarterly 60 (2010), pp.264–85. ToOxfordUniversityPressforpermissiontore-use‘FootNote’,first publishedinAnalysis79(2010),pp.468–73.
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