Inquiring into human enhancement : interdisciplinary and international perspectives /: interdisciplinary and international perspectives. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jerome Goffette, Michela Marzano.
• Authors: Allouche, Sylvie
• Editors: Bateman, Simone; Gayon, Jean; Allouche, Sylvie; Goffette, Jérôme; Marzano, Michela
• Contents: Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano PART I: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: WHAT DO WE MEAN? 1. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What is at Stake?; Simone Bateman and Jean Gayon 2. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; Jérôme Goffette 3. Why Do We Wish to Be Enhanced; Vincent Menuz 4. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Ruud ter Meulen PART II: LEARNING FROM ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES 5. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; Pascal Nouvel 6. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability; Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Léséleuc 7. BMI (Brain-Machine Interface) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation; Selim Eskiizmirliler and Jérôme Goffette 8. Doping Behavior as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Patrick Laure and Sylvie Allouche PART III: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM ART AND FICTION 9. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; Christopher Coenen 10. Transcendental Medicine Versus the ' 'Prisonhouse of the Flesh ' ': Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson ' 's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay 11. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; Jean-Noël Missa 12. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in ' 'Tales of the Biotech Revolution ' '; Brian Stableford.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 174.2; Medical ethics; Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137530073
• Related ISBNs: 9781137530066
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