Enhancement Fit for Humanity (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on Emerging Technologies
Redaktion: Baggot, Michael; Tham, Joseph; Carrara, Alberto; Gómez, Alberto García

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences? Drawing on the Catholic tradition in particular, international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000486995
• Artikelnr.: 62735585

Autorenporträt

Michael Baggot is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. Alberto García Gómez is Pro-Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. Alberto Carrara is Coordinator of the Italian Research Group in Neurobioethics in Rome, Italy. Joseph Tham is Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Scientific Perspectives on Emerging Technologies 1 Emerging and
Converging Technologies: The State of the Art in Therapeutics 2 Cognitive
and Memory Neuroenhancement 3 Is Neuroenhancement Ethical or Unethical?: An
Open Issue 4 Enhancement and Doping in Sports Part 2 Philosophical
Perspectives on Emerging Technologies 5 Anthropological and Neuroethical
Elements of the Pursuit of Neurocybernetic Immortality in the Global 2045
Initiative 6 For and Against Human Enhancement 7 Human Nature and the
Philosophical Challenges of a Post-Human Society 8.Toward the Abolition of
the Idea of Human Nature and the Ushering in of Another "Advent of a New
Man" 9 Healthier than Healthy: The Moral Case for Therapeutic Enhancements
10 Resisting the Temptations of Perfection 11 From Gender to Transgender
and Transhumanism 12 A Thomistic Assessment of Contemporary Transhumanism
as a Postmodern, Secular, Liberal Movement Part 3 Social and Legal
Perspectives on Emerging Technologies; 13 Which Juridic Norms Should
Regulate New Converging Technologies? 14 The Impact of Neurotechnologies on
Human Rights and Justice Part 4 Religious Perspectives on Emerging
Technologies and Transhumanism 15 Buddhist Reflections on the Development
of Biotechnology 16 Islam and Transhumanism 17 Questions and Answers on
Human Enhancement in the Jewish Tradition