Inquiring into human enhancement
Subtitle: interdisciplinary and international perspectives
By: [edited by] Simone Bateman [and four others]
Series: Health, technology and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingsoke; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781137530066
Subjects: Forecasting; Human body; Medical technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies; Genetic engineering; SCIENCE / Biotechnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
Description: "What is human enhancement all about? Why has it become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies? This book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these major debates. It proposes novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means, what practices and technologies are involved, and what goals are invoked, with their respective justifications and criticisms. It calls on contributors from different countries and backgrounds - sociology, philosophy, bioethics, political science, engineering, medicine, literary studies, science fiction - to examine three fundamental aspects of human technological enhancement. Firstly, what the concept of human enhancement means; secondly, what practices constitute human enhancement today; and, thirdly, what it might become in the future"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano; title: PART I: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: WHAT DO WE MEAN?; title: 1. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What is at Stake?; Simone Bateman and Jean Gayon; title: 2. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; Jérôme Goffette; title: 3. Why Do We Wish to Be Enhanced; Vincent Menuz; title: 4. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Ruud ter Meulen; title: PART II: LEARNING FROM ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES; title: 5. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; Pascal Nouvel; title: 6. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability; Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Le;se;leuc; title: 7. BMI (Brain-Machine Interface) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation; Selim Eskiizmirliler and Jérôme Goffette; title: 8. Doping Behavior as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Patrick Laure and Sylvie Allouche; title: PART III: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM ART AND FICTION; title: 9. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; Christopher Coenen; title: 10. Transcendental Medicine Versus the 'Prisonhouse of the Flesh': Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Franc̦oise Dupeyron-Lafay; title: 11. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; Jean-Noël Missa; title: 12. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in 'Tales of the Biotech Revolution'; Brian Stableford.