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The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability : New Bodies for a Better Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137405531
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Human Enhancement Debate and DisabilityLOC classification:
  • RA418-418.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Five Thoughts About Enhancement -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Refocusing the Enhancement Debate -- Part I: Norms and Body -- 2 On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity -- 3 Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition -- Part II: Case Studies -- 4 Good Old Brains: How Concerns About an Aging Society and Ideas About Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience -- 5 The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children -- 6 Token of Loss: Enthography of Cancer Rehabilitation and Restoration of Affected Lives in Kenya -- 7 Singing Better by Sacrificing Sex -- Part III: Utopian Ideas and Real Embodiment -- 8 Mood Enhancement and the Authenticity of Experience: Ethical Considerations -- 9 Prometheus Descends: Disabled or Enhanced? John Harris, Human Enhancement, and the Creation of a New Norm -- 10 More Human than Human!: How Recent Hollywood Films Depict Enhancement Technologies - And Why -- 11 Transhumanism's Anthropological Assumptions: A Critique -- 12 Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism -- Index.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Five Thoughts About Enhancement -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Refocusing the Enhancement Debate -- Part I: Norms and Body -- 2 On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity -- 3 Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition -- Part II: Case Studies -- 4 Good Old Brains: How Concerns About an Aging Society and Ideas About Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience -- 5 The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children -- 6 Token of Loss: Enthography of Cancer Rehabilitation and Restoration of Affected Lives in Kenya -- 7 Singing Better by Sacrificing Sex -- Part III: Utopian Ideas and Real Embodiment -- 8 Mood Enhancement and the Authenticity of Experience: Ethical Considerations -- 9 Prometheus Descends: Disabled or Enhanced? John Harris, Human Enhancement, and the Creation of a New Norm -- 10 More Human than Human!: How Recent Hollywood Films Depict Enhancement Technologies - And Why -- 11 Transhumanism's Anthropological Assumptions: A Critique -- 12 Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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