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Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

Autor Laura Y. Cabrera
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iul 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137402233
ISBN-10: 1137402237
Pagini: 201
Ilustrații: XIX, 201 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2015
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.