A theory of the super soldier : the morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military / by Jean-François Caron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caron, Jean-François, author.

Contributor:

Manchester University Press.

Series:

Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Technological innovations.

Military art and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 119 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies

2. The moral obligation of soldiers' enhancement research

3. Military capacity-increasing technologies and their consequences

4. The ethics of developing capacity-increasing technologies

5. Permanent capacity-increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

Description based on publisher's webpage, viewed on August 09, 2018.

ISBN:

9781526143648

152614364X

9781526117786

1526117789

OCLC:

1273306671