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 Y. Cabrera

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