Even before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, everyone knew that medicine had innate tendencies to exceed reasonable boundaries in the exercise of its powers. Those powers have grown considerably since the early nineteenth century, and Andrew Stark recognizes that society now desperately needs to figure out a way to tame medicine by limiting its scope. For the last decade or more, the standard philosophical approach to this problem has been to try to draw a distinction between curing diseases and enhancing human traits. But this approach, says Stark in The Limits of Medicine, raises two problems. First, some groups (paradigmatically, a … Continue reading Medicine Without Limits