Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice
Recent progress in geroscience holds the promise of significantly slowing down or even reversing ageing and age-related diseases, and thus increasing our healthspans. In this paper, I offer a novel argument in favour of developing such technology and making it unconditionally available to everyone....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Bioethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 239-245 |
IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics NCH Medical ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
Further subjects: | B
Justice
B geroscience B Ageing B life extension B complete life B healthspan |
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Summary: | Recent progress in geroscience holds the promise of significantly slowing down or even reversing ageing and age-related diseases, and thus increasing our healthspans. In this paper, I offer a novel argument in favour of developing such technology and making it unconditionally available to everyone. In particular, I argue that justice requires that each person be provided with sufficient opportunities to have a ‘complete life’, that many people currently lack such opportunities, and that we would substantially improve the status quo by giving them access to anti-ageing technology. |
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ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13129 |