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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
January 7, 2011
Pages
423
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780199594962
ISBN-10
0199594961
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.42 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$39.95
Other format details
university press
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Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical Enhancement (Philosophy in Action) | Microbiology: An Introduction (13th Edition) | The Singularity Is Near | Superintelligence | The Transhumanist Reader | The New Science of Learning | Bioethics
Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical Enhancement (Philosophy in Action) | Microbiology: An Introduction (13th Edition) | The Singularity Is Near | Superintelligence | The Transhumanist Reader | The New Science of Learning | Bioethics
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question.
Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities to increase or modulate cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and to control the biological processes underlying normal aging. Some have suggested that such advances would take us beyond the bounds of human nature.
These trends, and these dramatic prospects, raise profound ethical questions. They have generated intense public debate and have become a central topic of discussion within practical ethics. Should we side with bioconservatives, and forgo the use of any biomedical interventions aimed at enhancing human capacities? Should we side with transhumanists and embrace the new opportunities? Or should we perhaps plot some middle course?
Human Enhancement presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.
Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities to increase or modulate cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and to control the biological processes underlying normal aging. Some have suggested that such advances would take us beyond the bounds of human nature.
These trends, and these dramatic prospects, raise profound ethical questions. They have generated intense public debate and have become a central topic of discussion within practical ethics. Should we side with bioconservatives, and forgo the use of any biomedical interventions aimed at enhancing human capacities? Should we side with transhumanists and embrace the new opportunities? Or should we perhaps plot some middle course?
Human Enhancement presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.
Editions
Hardcover
With Julian Savulescu (other contributor) |
1 edition from Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (March 25, 2009)
9780199299720 | details & prices | 423 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $82.00
Paperback
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With Julian Savulescu (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (January 7, 2011)
9780199594962 | details & prices | 423 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.42 lbs | List price $39.95
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