Konstfacks bibliotek : Human enhancement

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Titel och upphov	Human enhancement
Utgivning, distribution etc.	Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York : 2009
Utgivningsår	2009
	Språk: Engelska.
DDC klassifikationskod (Dewey Decimal Classification)	610.19 610.1/9
SAB klassifikationskod	44.02 Dgv V:d
Fysisk beskrivning	vi, 423 p. ; 25 cm.
Anmärkning: Bibliografi etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index
Term	Medical innovations Medical ethics. Prenatal diagnosis. Genetic engineering. Biomedical Enhancement Genetic Engineering Prenatal Diagnosis Medicinsk etik Genteknik Medical ethics
ISBN	978-0-19-929972-0 (alk. paper) 0-19-929972-2 (alk. paper)
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To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question.

Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities to increase or modulate cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and to control the biological processes underlying normal aging. Some have suggested that such advances would take us beyond the bounds of human nature.

These trends, and these dramatic prospects, raise profound ethical questions. They have generated intense public debate and have become a central topic of discussion within practical ethics. Should we side with bioconservatives, and forgo the use of any biomedical interventions aimed at enhancing human capacities? Should we side with transhumanists and embrace the new opportunities? Or should we perhaps plot some middle course?

Human Enhancement presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Human Enhancement in General

Can Anyone Really Be Talking About Ethically Modifying Human Nature?p. 25
What's Taxonomy Got to Do with It? 'Species Integrity', Human Rights, and Science Policyp. 43
Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspectivep. 59
The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineeringp. 71
What Is and Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?p. 91
Enhancements Are a Moral Obligationp. 131
Playing Godp. 155
Toward a More Fruitful Debate About Enhancementp. 181
Good, Better, or Best?p. 199
The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?p. 211

Specific Enhancements

Is Selection of Children Wrong?p. 251
Parental Choice and Human Improvementp. 277
Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosisp. 291
Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sportp. 315
Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membershipp. 327
Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?p. 341
Enhancing Our Truth Orientationp. 357

Enhancement as a Practical Challenge

The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancementp. 375

Indexp. 417