Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

ISBN-13: 9781137402233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 201 str.

Laura Y. Cabrera

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.