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1 online resource |
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Space and society |
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Space and society (Springer (Firm))
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| Contents |
Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- Part IHuman Enhancements: Biological and Medical Perspectives. Conceptual Issues -- 1 Normalizing the Paradigm on Human Enhancements for Spaceflight -- 1.1 The Metamorphosis that Needed a Paradigm Shift -- 1.2 The "Human" in Human Enhancements -- 1.3 Human Enhancements for Space and Off-World Missions -- 1.4 The Dependence of Spacefaring on Human Enhancements -- 1.5 Normalizing the Paradigm Means Including All Types of Human Enhancements -- 1.6 Three Approaches to Normalize the Paradigm on Human Enhancements, from Common Sense, Statistics, and Mathematics |
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1.6.1 The Normalized Paradigm Places Enhancements in a Standard State -- 1.6.2 The Normalized Paradigm Conceives of Naturally Occurring Modifications that Occur Along a Normal Bell Curve -- 1.6.3 The Normalized Paradigm Transforms Variables Related to Enhancements and Enables Comparative Evaluations -- 1.6.4 Evaluation and Decision-Making for Mission Success -- 1.6.5 Continual Re-evaluation of Enhancement Needs -- 1.7 Enhancement or Extinction, that May Be the Question -- 1.8 Evaluation of a Full, Normalized Set of Human Enhancements -- References |
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2 CRISPR Challenges and Opportunities for Space Travel -- 2.1 What is CRISPR? -- 2.2 Biomedical Challenges and Possible Solutions in Space Travel -- 2.2.1 Radiation and Carcinogenesis -- 2.2.2 Dysregulated Immune System -- 2.2.3 Osteoporosis and Muscular Atrophy -- 2.2.4 Neurocognitive and Psychological Deficits -- 2.3 What Are the Guidelines Regarding CRISPR? -- 2.4 Revisiting the Therapy Versus Enhancement Distinction -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3 Biological Modification as Prophylaxis: How Extreme Environments Challenge the Treatment/Enhancement Divide -- 3.1 Introduction |
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3.2 The Threats of Space Travel and Current Mitigation Strategies -- 3.3 Ethical Concerns with Biological Modification -- 3.4 Biological Modification as Prophylaxis and the Case for "Somaforming" -- 3.5 Ethical Prioritisation of Biological Modification for Space Travel -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Crossing the Posthuman Rubicon: When Do Enhancements Change Our Definition of Human? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Reproductivists: Traditional Reproductive Notions of Speciation and Their Deficits -- 4.2.1 Prezygotic Barriers -- 4.2.2 Postzygotic Barriers -- 4.2.3 Allopatric Speciation |
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4.2.4 Sympatric Speciation -- 4.2.5 The Question of Subspecies: H. sapiens augmentum? -- 4.3 Compositionalists -- 4.4 Functionalists -- 4.5 Fundamentalists -- 4.5.1 Immortality -- 4.5.2 Omnipresence Part 1: Traveling Through Time -- 4.5.3 Omnipresence Part 2: Teleporting or Rapidly Traveling Through Space -- 4.5.4 Omnipresence Part 3: Distributed Consciousness -- 4.5.5 Omniscience: Distributed Intelligence -- 4.5.6 Manufactured Omnipotence: Divine Engineers -- 4.6 Posthumanity -- References |
| Summary |
This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts operating in hostile space environments, but also ethical and theological aspects are addressed. In contrast to the idea and program of human enhancement on Earth, human enhancement in space is considered a serious and necessary option. This book aims at scholars in the following fields: ethics and philosophy, space policy, public policy, as well as biologists and psychologists |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Genetic engineering.
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Space medicine.
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Genetic engineering
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Space medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Szocik, Konrad, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030420369 |
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3030420361 |
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