Jean-François Caron

A theory of the super soldier

The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military

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Produktbeschreibung

Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781526117779
• ISBN-10: 1526117770
• Artikelnr.: 50694749

Autorenporträt

Jean-François Caron is Associate Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity
restoring and capacity
increasing technologies 2 The moral obligation of soldiers' enhancement research 3 Military capacity
increasing technologies and their consequences 4 The ethics of developing capacity
increasing technologies 5 Permanent capacity
increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger Conclusion Index