TY - BOOK AU - Mehlman,Maxwell J. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The price of perfection: individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement AV - RA418.5.M4 M45 2009 U1 - 610 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Medical innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Perfection KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social medicine KW - Bioethics KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The technological horizon -- Self-satisfaction -- Social reward -- The hegemony of meritocracy -- Access to enhancements and the challenge to equality -- Lack of choice -- Enhancements in sports -- The lessons from sports -- The war on enhancements -- Promoting safety, efficacy, and informed decisionmaking -- Protecting the vulnerable -- Access and inequality -- Abominations -- Research on enhancement; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3318484 ER -