title: Immortality.
abstract: In December, the President's Council on Bioethics released Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. Here, Lustig discusses the six-part report that provides a balanced but critical assessment of actual and prospective developments in biotechnology and seeks to anchor its discussion in shared moral and metaphysical concerns--the nature of human nature, and the social and political implications of unfettered choices in altering the human prospect through biotechnology.
authors.affiliation: Program on Biotechnology, Religion, and Ethics, Rice-Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lustig
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D001675:Bioethics; D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000941:ethics*; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans