Global issues and ethical considerations in human enhancement technologies / Steven John Thompson, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Steven John, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Thompson, Steven John, 1956- editor.

Series:

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series, 2328-1324

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomedical engineering--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Biomedical engineering.

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Medical instruments and apparatus.

Biomedical Enhancement--ethics.

Human Experimentation--ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Biomedical Enhancement--ethics.

Human Experimentation--ethics.

Physical Description:

PDFs (327 pages).

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book compiles prestigious research and provides a well-rounded composite of role of human enhancement technologies in emerging areas for those involved in computer science and the humanities, as well as many engaged in a humanities approach to metasystems, new artificial life, and robotics"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ethics, wearable technology, and higher education: toward a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction / Marcia Alesan Dawkins

Anticipating human enhancement: identifying ethical issues of bodyware / Deniz Tunçalp, Mary Helen Fagan

Mapping human enhancement rhetoric / Kevin A. Thayer

Human enhancement: living up to the ideal human / Johann A. R. Roduit, Vincent Menuz, Holger Baumann

The ethics of seeking body perfection, with continual reference to Heidi Montag / Brett Lunceford

Neurosurgery to enhance brain function: ethical dilemmas for the neuroscientist and society / Reuben David Johnson, Dirk De Ridder, Grant Gillett

Super soldiers (part 1): What is military human enhancement? / Patrick Lin, Max Mehlman, Keith Abney, Jai Galliott

Super soldiers (part 2): The ethical, legal, and operational implications / Patrick Lin, Max Mehlman, Keith Abney, Shannon French, Shannon Vallor, Jai Galliott, Michael Burnam-Fink, Alexander R. LaCroix, Seth Schuknecht

Human enhancing technologies and individual privacy right / Joanna Kulesza

Human enhancement technologies and democratic citizenship / Jean-Paul Gagnon

Defining and analyzing disability in human enhancement / Dev Bose

Technic self-determination / Franco Cortese

Technology and the memetic self / Elizabeth J. Falck

Enhancement and identity: a social psychological perspective / Samuel G. Wilson.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781466660113

OCLC:

883632110