Inquiring into Human Enhancement [electronic resource] : Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives /
Allouche, Sylvie.author.
Gayon, Jean.author.
Marzano, Michela.author.
Goffette, Jérôme.author.
Bateman, Simone.editor.
Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.
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""Cover ""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Series Editors? Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Human Enhancement: What Do We Mean?""; ""1 The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?""; ""2 Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine""; ""3 Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?""; ""4 The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement""; ""Part II Learning from Enhancement Practices""; ""5 A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement""
""6 From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability""""7 Brain?Machine Interface (BMI) as a Tool for Understanding Human?Machine Cooperation""; ""8Doping Behaviour as an Indicator of Performance Pressure""; ""Part III Visions of the Future: Lessons from Art and Fiction""; ""9 The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain""; ""10 Transcendental Medicine versus the ?Prisonhouse of the Flesh?: Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson?s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde""
""11 Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario""""12 Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in Tales of the Biotech Revolution""; ""Index""
Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.
Sociology.
Human body—Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Biotechnology.
Science—Social aspects.
Life sciences.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of the Body.
Medical Sociology.
Biotechnology.
Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.
Life Sciences, general.