Laura Y. Cabrera

Rethinking Human Enhancement

Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-40223-3
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781137402233
• ISBN-10: 1137402237
• Artikelnr.: 42459383

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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