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Enhancement technologies and identity ethics

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Carl Elliott teaches at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and was a visiting associate professor in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 2003–04. This article is adapted fromBetter Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (W. W. Norton, 2004).

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Elliott, C. Enhancement technologies and identity ethics. Soc 41, 25–31 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688214

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