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Rethinking Human Enhancement

Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Laura Y. Cabrera

    1. University of British Columbia, Canada

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to the Enhancement Debate

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Biomedical Paradigm

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 31-54

  4. The Transhumanist Paradigm

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 55-84

  5. The Social Paradigm

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 85-114

  6. To Enhance or Not to Enhance: Looking into Deeper Issues

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 115-139

  7. A Suggested Approach

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 140-162

  8. Conclusions

    • Laura Y. Cabrera
    Pages 163-168

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 169-201
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About this book

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way.

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  • University of British Columbia, Canada

    Laura Y. Cabrera

About the author

Laura Cabrera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on neuroethics and emergent technologies, especially those connected to uses of neurotechnologies and individual/societal implications and perspectives.

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