Rethinking Human Enhancement - Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Laura Y Cabrera, Laura Y. Cabrera
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137402233
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40223-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; B, Sociology, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, biotechnology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sociology, general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy and science, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social medicine, Medical Sociology, ethics;innovation;technology