Rethinking Human Enhancement

Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

Laura Y. Cabrera (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

201 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-40223-3 (ISBN)

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This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way.

Laura Cabrera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on neuroethics and emergent technologies, especially those connected to uses of neurotechnologies and individual/societal implications and perspectives.

Foreword; Steve Fuller

1. Introduction to the Enhancement Debate

2. The Biomedical Paradigm

3. The Transhumanist Paradigm

4. The Social Paradigm

5. To Enhance or Not to Enhance: Looking Into Deeper Issues

6. A Suggested Approach

7. Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2015
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 201 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-137-40223-7 / 1137402237
ISBN-13	978-1-137-40223-3 / 9781137402233
Zustand	Neuware