The Routledge handbook of the ethics of human enhancement / edited by Fabrice Jotterand and Marcello Ienca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jotterand, Fabrice, 1967- editor.

Ienca, Marcello, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in applied ethics.

Routledge handbooks in applied ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, neuroscience, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, bioengineering, and many other fields. The Handbook includes a diverse and multifaceted collection of 30 chapters--all appearing here in print for the first time-- that reveal the fundamental ethical challenges related to human enhancement. The chapters have been written by internationally recognized leaders in the field and are organized into seven parts: I. Historical Background and Key Concepts II. Human Enhancement and Human Nature III. Physical Enhancement IV. Cognitive Enhancement V. Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement VI. Human Enhancement and Medicine VII. Legal, Social, and Political Implications The depth and topical range of the Handbook makes it an essential resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in a broad variety of disciplinary areas. Furthermore, it is an authoritative reference for basic scientists, philosophers, engineers, physicians, lawyers, and other professionals who work on the topic of human enhancement.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Historical background and key concepts

Chapter 1 Philosophical advice for the age of human enhancement

Chapter 2 Spotlights on the history of human enhancement discourse

Chapter 3 To be or not to be enhanced? Just ask the Moon - in posthuman terms

Part II Human enhancement and human nature

Chapter 4 Clones, chimeras, and organoids: Developmental biology and the human future

Chapter 5 A thematic overview: Debating the ethics of radical enhancement

Chapter 6 Resurrecting the 'body': Phenomenological perspectives on embodiment

Chapter 7 Human enhancement through the lens of sex selection

Chapter 8 Does enhancement violate human "nature"?

Chapter 9 Authenticity in the Ethics of Human Enhancement

Part III Physical enhancement

Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement: Key Concepts and Future Prospects

Chapter 11 Germline gene editing with CRISPR: A risk-analysis response to liberal eugenics

Chapter 12 Framing longevity science and an "aging enhancement"

Chapter 13 Christian theology and the ethical ambiguities of aging attenuation

Part IV Cognitive enhancement

Chapter 14 AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA)

Chapter 15 Clearing the bottleneck of empirical data in the ethics of cognitive enhancement

Chapter 16 Not extended, but enhanced: Internal improvements to cognition and the maintenance of cognitive agency

Chapter 17 Is enhancement with brain-computer interfaces ethical? Evidence in favor of symbiotic augmentation

Chapter 18 Anticipating the future of neurotechnological enhancement

Part V Mood enhancement and moral bioenhancement.

Chapter 19 Moral enhancement through neurosurgery? - Feasibility and ethical justifiability

Chapter 20 Transhumanism and moral enhancement

Chapter 21 Protecting future generations by enhancing current generations

Chapter 22 What kinds of moral bioenhancement are desirable? What kinds are possible?

Part VI Human enhancement and medicine

Chapter 23 The meaning of enhancement in the post-COVID-19 world

Chapter 24 Clinical practice and human enhancement: Blurred borders and ethical issues

Chapter 25 Cyborgs and designer babies: The human body as a technological design space

Chapter 26 Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: Entanglement with emotion, morality, and context

Part VII Legal, social, and political implications

Chapter 27 Cognitive enhancement from a legal perspective

Chapter 28 Enhancement and hyperresponsibility

Chapter 29 Human flourishing or injustice? Social, political, and regulatory implications of cognitive enhancement

Chapter 30 Contemporary bioethical and legal perspectives on cognitive enhancement

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jotterand, Fabrice The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement

ISBN:

1-00-310559-9

1-003-10559-9

1-000-90182-3

1-000-90186-6

9781003105596

OCLC:

1382694142