Konrad Szocik (Assistant Profess Assistant Professor of Philosophy

The Bioethics of Space Exploration

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Produktbeschreibung

The Bioethics of Space Exploration provides a comprehensive discussion of the possible bioethical issues and challenges that may arise when considering future long-term space missions. Because of numerous threats within the space environment, many consider the concept of radically modifying humans to be a serious and perhaps even necessary option. Konrad Szocik presents what types of ethical and bioethical challenges may await participants on commercial, scientific, and colonizing missions, and provides a new perspective into the potential for radical biomedical technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780197628478
• ISBN-10: 0197628478
• Artikelnr.: 67567736

Autorenporträt

Konrad Szocik is a visiting fellow at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and an assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland. His research interests include philosophy, ethics, and bioethics of space exploration, human enhancement, feminism, and selected issues on the border of futures studies and technology.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: The place of space bioethics in the philosophy and
ethics of space missions
* 2. Introduction to human health risks in space and the methodology of
space bioethics
* 3. Biomedical human enhancement
* 4. Germline gene editing and embryo selection for future long-term
space missions
* 5. Justification of human enhancement versus rationale for space
missions
* 6. Is the bioethics of space missions different from bioethics on
Earth?
* 7. Moral bioenhancement in long-term space missions
* 8. Space Bioethics, Population Ethics, and Space Colonization
* 9. Conclusions
* 10. Appendix 1. Bioethics of space missions in the light of futures
studies