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siders “a treatment to be an enhancement if it is carried out to enable someone
born with a bodily characteristic which is socially often considered a defect (such
as cleft lip) to achieve a species-typical or nearly species-typical functioning.” it
proposes three categories of therapy and three categories of non-therapeutic en-
hancement. Authors who make no distinction between therapy and enhancement
include Parens (1998) and Wolpe (2002).
18. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists criteria for di-
agnosing nearly four hundred mental disorders. The fifth edition of the manual
(Dsm-v) is due to be published in may 2013.
19. medical philosopher, ethicist, and author lennart nordenfelt (1995)
makes this point in his On the Nature of Health: An Action-Theory Approach.
20. Plato devotes over thirty pages to the subject of virtue in his dialogue,
“The meno,” without arriving at a definition for virtue.
21. This list of virtues is borrowed almost verbatim from the twelve points of
the Boy scout law: to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,
obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. i omitted “obedient” be-
cause i never did very well with that point!
22. A new topic makes an important contribution in this area: lin, Abney, and
Bekey's (2012) Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics.
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