Rethinking Human Enhancement [electronic resource] : Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies /
Cabrera, Laura Y.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Introduction to the enhancement debate -- The biomedical paradigm -- The transhumanist paradigm -- The social paradigm -- To enhance or not to enhance : looking Into deeper issues -- A suggested approach.
Sociology.
Social medicine.
Philosophy and science.
Biotechnology.
Ethics.
Sociology, general.
Medical Sociology.
Philosophy of Science.
Biotechnology.
Ethics.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.