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Second, it engages Christian anthropological and natural law principles to evaluate the populist and essentialist concerns these therapeutic\/enhancement interventions provoke (Part Two). And, third, it proposes formation of a Catholic medical think tank to appraise whether transhumanist biotechnologies can serve human dignity and, to the extent they can, to formulate wise clinical\/administrative guidelines for their inclusion in US Catholic healthcare settings (Part Three).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Nontechnical summary:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This article explores the body\/mind enhancement goals of transhumanist medicine, evaluates the biotechnological means to accomplish those therapeutic\/enhancement goals, and suggests the formation of a Catholic medical think tank to formulate wise clinical\/administrative guidelines for the inclusion of genetic, robo, info-, and nanotechnologies in US Catholic healthcare settings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0024363919838134","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,29]],"date-time":"2019-03-29T04:38:58Z","timestamp":1553834338000},"page":"115-126","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Transhumanist Medicine: Can We Direct Its Power to the Service of Human Dignity?"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"86","author":[{"given":"Ren\u00e9e","family":"Mirkes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for NaProEthics, the ethics division of the Pope Paul VI Institute, Omaha, NE, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr2-0024363919838134","unstructured":"Berger Michael. 2007. 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