Titlebook: Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity; Bert Gordijn,Ruth Chadwick Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Applied Ethics.Cosmet

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Therapy, Enhancement and Improvementr purposes not envisaged and possibly not approved, would be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible..This chapter has two aims: first, to seek more clarity about the concept of enhancement. I shall examine attempts to distinguish therapy from enhancement, and shall argue that a more important f

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Medical Enhancement: A Destination of Technological, not Human, Bettermentvergence is described in the following manner: “The twenty-first century could end in world peace, universal prosperity, and evolution to a higher level of compassion and accomplishment” (Roco & Bainbridge 2003: 6). This 2003 report goes on to discuss how this NBIC convergence will offer humankind m

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How to Defend Genetic Enhancementd grant prospective parents the freedom to enhance some of their children‘s charac teristics. The first move in this defence is to depart from the standard liberal text and refuse to view enhancement as an expression of procreative liberty. Instead, I position the genetic enhancement of children as

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A Critical History of Posthumanismo technology. Certainly, technological change has become central to contemporary articulations of posthumanity. Indeed, the term implies an emergent leap from some present status of being human, to a future characterization as . humanity. In this sense, one must suppose that this is necessarily tech

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Posthumanity, Transhumanism and Human Naturests” like Nick Bostrom (cf. 2003, 2005) define themselves by taking a decidedly positive view of the prospect of a “posthuman” future, whereas “bioconservatives” like Leon Kass (cf. 1997) are more sceptical of this prospect and tend to warn us not to invest too much, mentally and economically, in wh

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What is the Good of Transhumanism? future incomprehensible to beings such as we are — at no distant date an evolutionary leap in the way intelligence is embodied, and what it can accomplish. Transhumanism seeks to make sure no atavistic scruple obstructs this momentum, and to maximize its benefits and minimize its admitted risks.

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Germline Genetic Modificationhether it would be a good or a bad thing if germline modifications were performed in humans. Instead, today’s ethical inquiry should focus on whether to pursue human germline genetic intervention as a research goal. For us, the relevant questions are the following: What is the potential value of res

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Bioelectronics and Implanted Devicesimb, to surmount those conditions. Significant ethical concerns are, however, raised by the potential for using these technologies to enhance and augment human capabilities, and by the possibility that humankind, as we know it, may eventually be phased out, or become just a step in evolution. Endowi