The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability [electronic resource] : New Bodies for a Better Life /
Eilers, M.editor.
Grüber, K.editor.
Rehmann-Sutter, C.editor.
Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Five Thoughts About Enhancement; Notes on Contributors; 1 Refocusing the Enhancement Debate; Part I: Norms and Body; 2 On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity; 3 Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition; Part II: Case Studies; 4 Good Old Brains: How Concerns About an Aging Society and Ideas About Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience; 5 The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children
6 Token of Loss: Enthography of Cancer Rehabilitation and Restoration of Affected Lives in Kenya7 Singing Better by Sacrificing Sex; Part III: Utopian Ideas and Real Embodiment; 8 Mood Enhancement and the Authenticity of Experience: Ethical Considerations; 9 Prometheus Descends: Disabled or Enhanced? John Harris, Human Enhancement, and the Creation of a New Norm; 10 More Human than Human!: How Recent Hollywood Films Depict Enhancement Technologies - And Why; 11 Transhumanism's Anthropological Assumptions: A Critique
12 Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement UtopianismIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition.
Social medicine.
Biomedical engineering.
Surgery.
Human body—Social aspects.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Medical Sociology.
Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.
Surgery.
Sociology of the Body.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.