Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

by Laura Y. Cabrera

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137402233
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Laura Cabrera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on neuroethics and emergent technologies, especially those connected to uses of neurotechnologies and individual/societal implications and perspectives.

Table of Contents

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