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1 online resource |
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Health, technology and society |
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Health, technology, and society.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Human Enhancement: What Do We Mean?; 1 The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?; 2 Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; 3 Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?; 4 The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Part II Learning from Enhancement Practices; 5 A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; 6 From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability |
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7 Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation8Doping Behaviour as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Part III Visions of the Future: Lessons from Art and Fiction; 9 The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; 10 Transcendental Medicine versus the 'Prisonhouse of the Flesh': Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; 11 Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; 12 Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in Tales of the Biotech Revolution; Index |
| Summary |
What is human enhancement all about? Why has it become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies? This book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these major debates. It proposes novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means, what practices and technologies are involved, and what goals are invoked, with their respective justifications and criticisms. It calls on contributors from different countries and backgrounds--sociology, philosophy, bioethics, political science, engineering, medicine, literary studies, science fiction--to examine three fundamental aspects of human technological enhancement: firstly, what the concept of human enhancement means; secondly, what practices constitute human enhancement today, and; thirdly, what it might become in the future |
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"What is human enhancement all about? Why has it become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies? This book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these major debates. It proposes novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means, what practices and technologies are involved, and what goals are invoked, with their respective justifications and criticisms. It calls on contributors from different countries and backgrounds - sociology, philosophy, bioethics, political science, engineering, medicine, literary studies, science fiction - to examine three fundamental aspects of human technological enhancement. Firstly, what the concept of human enhancement means; secondly, what practices constitute human enhancement today; and, thirdly, what it might become in the future"-- Provided by publisher |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Medical technology.
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Genetic engineering.
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Human body -- Forecasting
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Biomedical Enhancement
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Medical Laboratory Science
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Ethical issues & debates.
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Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments.
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Bio-ethics.
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Impact of science & technology on society.
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SCIENCE -- Biotechnology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Future Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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Medical technology
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Genetic engineering
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Technologie médicale.
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Biotechnologie.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bateman, Simone, 1949- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137530073 |
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1137530073 |
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9781349563548 |
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1349563544 |
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9781137530080 |
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1137530081 |
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