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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Looking at human enhancement through the disability lens / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers, and Katrin Grüber -- On unfamiliar moral territory : about variant embodiment, enhancement, and normativity / Jackie Leach Scully -- Improving deficiencies : historical, anthropological, and ethical aspects of the human condition / Christina Schües -- Good old brains : how concerns about the ageing society and ideas about cognitive enhancement interact in neuroscience / Morten Bülow -- The making and unmaking of deaf children / Sigrid Bosteels and Stuart Blume -- Token of the loss : ethnography of artificial restoration of cancer patients' bodies and lives in Kenya / Benson Mulemi -- Singing better by sacrificing sex / Anna Piotrowska -- Mood enhancement and the authenticity of experience : ethical considerations / Lisa Forsberg -- Prometheus descends : disabled or enhanced? / John Harris -- Human enhancement, and the creation of a new norm / Trijsje Franssen -- More human than human! how recent Hollywood films depict enhancement technologies and why / Kathrin Klohs -- Transhumanism's anthropological assumptions : a critique / Nicolai Münch -- Be afraid of the unmodified body! the social construction of risk in enhancement utopianism / Sascha Dickel |
| Summary |
How does the idea of enhancement relate to disability? At first glance, it might seem simple: enhancement is gain, disability is loss of function, but a closer looks reveals a rich and complex relationship, where the disability perspectives offers an invaluable insight in unpicking the controversy surrounding the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. While rejecting a dualistic divide between 'therapy' and 'enhancement', enhancement bioethics can benefit from the study of interdisciplinary disability studies by placing the question of a 'better life' for those who might become enhanced on experiential ground; in preventing bioethics from relying on reductionist biomedical models of functional upgrade; in considering ambivalence in and the side effects of improvements; and in making bioethics more alert to possible discriminatory implications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Bioethics.
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People with disabilities.
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Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics
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Disabled Persons
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Bioethical Issues
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Disability: social aspects.
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Bio-ethics.
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Medical ethics & professional conduct.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Bioethics
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People with disabilities
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Disability: social aspects.
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Bio-ethics.
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Medical ethics & professional conduct.
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Society.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eilers, Miriam, editor.
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Grüber, Katrin, editor.
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Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, 1959- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137405531 |
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1137405538 |
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9781349487752 |
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1349487759 |
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