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dc.contributor.editorClarke, Steve
dc.contributor.editorSavulescu, Julian
dc.contributor.editorCoady, C.A.J. (Tony)
dc.contributor.editorGiubilini, Alberto
dc.contributor.editorSanyal, Sagar
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T09:29:45Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T09:29:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49605
dc.description.abstractWe humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities and be able to do so in more ways in the not-too-distant future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of human enhancement technologies becoming widely used, while others have viewed it with alarm and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. Unfortunately the debate over the ethics of human enhancement appears to have reached an impasse, with proponents and opponents of human enhancement drawing on different intellectual traditions, relying on different methodologies and ‘talking past one another’. In order to move this debate forward, we need either to find new ways of understanding the current debate or to develop new ways of thinking about the ethics of human enhancement. In this volume leading philosophers and bioethicists invite us to adopt new ways to think about the ongoing debate, either by drawing on work in psychology that helps to explain common reactions to the prospect of human enhancement or by finding points of comparison between the current debate about the ethics of human enhancement and other academic debates, such as the debate about justice for people with disabilities. Other contributors offer original lines of argument about the ethics of human enhancement and seek to take that debate in new directions.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSB Biochemistryen_US
dc.subject.otherdrug therapies, intellectual traditions, bioethicists, philosophers, human enhancement, people with disabilitiesen_US
dc.titleThe Ethics of Human Enhancementen_US
dc.title.alternativeUnderstanding the Debateen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754855.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2en_US
oapen.relation.hasChapterb16e7db0-8176-4a3f-8c0e-9e97d1ec7aeb
oapen.relation.hasChapterad818bdb-2fe9-4e5c-a96e-b823c07be3fd
oapen.relation.isbn9780198754855en_US
oapen.place.publicationOxforden_US


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