The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement

ISBN-13: 9780367615796 / Angielski

Fabrice Jotterand; Marcello Ienco

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, neuroscience, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, bioengineering, and many other fields. The Handbook includes a diverse and multifaceted collection of 30 chapters—all appearing here in print for the first time— that reveal the fundamental ethical challenges related to human enhancement. The chapters have been written by internationally recognized leaders in the field and are organized into seven parts:

I. Historical Background and Key Concepts
II. Human Enhancement and Human Nature
III. Physical Enhancement
IV. Cognitive Enhancement
V. Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement
VI. Human Enhancement and Medicine
VII. Legal, Social, and Political Implications

The depth and topical range of the Handbook makes it an essential resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in a broad variety of disciplinary areas. Furthermore, it is an authoritative reference for basic scientists, philosophers, engineers, physicians, lawyers, and other professionals who work on the topic of human enhancement.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Philosophical Advice for the Age of Human Enhancement  2. Spotlights on the History of Human Enhancement Discourse  3. To Be or Not to Be Enhanced? Just ask the Moon – in Posthuman Terms  4. Clones, Chimeras, and Organoids  5. A Thematic Overview of Debate on the Ethics of Radical Human Enhancement  6. Resurrecting the Body  7. Human Enhancement through the Lens of Sex Selection  8. Does Enhancement Violate Human "Nature"?  9. Authenticity in the Ethics of Human Enhancement  10. The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement  11. Germline Gene Editing with CRISPR  12. Framing Longevity Science and an "Aging Enhancement"  13. Christian Theology and the Ethical Ambiguities of Aging Attenuation  14. AI as IA  15. Clearing the Bottleneck of empirical data in the ethics of cognitive enhancement  16. Not Extended, but Enhanced  17. Is Enhancement with Brain-Computer Interfaces Ethical? Evidence in Favour of Symbiotic Augmentation  18. Anticipating the Future of Neurotechnological Enhancement  19. Moral Enhancement through Neurosurgery? ─ Feasibility and Ethical Justifiability  20. Transhumanism and Moral Enhancement  21. Protecting Future Generations by Enhancing Current Generations  22. What Kinds of Moral Bioenhancement are Desirable? What Kinds are Possible?  23. The Meaning of Enhancement in the Post COVID-19 World  24. Clinical Practice and Human Enhancement  25. Cyborgs and Designer Babies  26. Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement  27. Cognitive Enhancement from a Legal Perspective  28. Enhancement and Hyperresponsibility  29. Human Flourishing or Injustice? Social, Political and Regulatory Implications of Cognitive Enhancement  30. Contemporary Bioethical and Legal Perspectives on Cognitive Enhancement