Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Series: Health, Technology and Society
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?....Pages 19-37
Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine....Pages 38-59
Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?....Pages 60-85
The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement....Pages 86-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement....Pages 103-118
From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability....Pages 119-137
Brain–Machine Interface (BMI) as a Tool for Understanding Human–Machine Cooperation....Pages 138-160
Doping Behaviour as an Indicator of Performance Pressure....Pages 161-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain....Pages 183-204
Transcendental Medicine versus the ‘Prisonhouse of the Flesh’: Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....Pages 205-228
Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario....Pages 229-252
Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in Tales of the Biotech Revolution....Pages 253-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-278

✦ Subjects

Science, general