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    Challenges→Efforts to improve traits that are at no diagnosable risk of deterioration are enhancements and thus medically suspect

    Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler argue in 'From Chance to Choice' that confining medicine to disease-treatment arbitrarily privileges natural deficits over equally harmful socially-caused disadvantages.

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    Arbitrarily privileges(as used in logic and ethics)
    Treats one thing as more important than another without good reasons; favors something in an unfair or random way.
    Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler(as authors of 'From Chance to Choice')
    Four bioethicists (philosophers who study medical and health ethics) who collaborated on research about fairness in healthcare and medicine.
    Disease-treatment(as the conventional scope of medicine)
    The traditional medical focus on fixing illnesses and physical disorders in individual patients.
    From Chance to Choice(as a specific philosophical work being referenced)
    A influential book about genetic engineering and decision-making that argues we're moving from accepting genetics as random luck to actively choosing genetic traits.

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    Natural deficits(as compared to socially-caused disadvantages)
    Disadvantages or limitations people are born with or develop through no one's fault—like genetic diseases or disabilities from random chance.
    Socially-caused disadvantages(as equally important problems medicine might address)
    Harms or unfair obstacles that result from how society is organized, like poverty, discrimination, or lack of access to education.

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