Inquiring into Human Enhancement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano

      Pages 1-16

3. Human Enhancement: What Do We Mean?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?

      • Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon

      Pages 19-37

   3. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine

      • Jérôme Goffette

      Pages 38-59

   4. Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?

      • Vincent Menuz

      Pages 60-85

   5. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement

      • Ruud ter Meulen

      Pages 86-99

4. Learning from Enhancement Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement

      • Pascal Nouvel

      Pages 103-118

   3. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability

      • Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini, Éric de Léséleuc

      Pages 119-137

   4. Brain–Machine Interface (BMI) as a Tool for Understanding Human–Machine Cooperation

      • Selim Eskiizmirliler, Jérôme Goffette

      Pages 138-160

   5. Doping Behaviour as an Indicator of Performance Pressure

      • Patrick Laure, Sylvie Allouche

      Pages 161-180

5. Visions of the Future: Lessons from Art and Fiction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain

      • Christopher Coenen

      Pages 183-204

   3. Transcendental Medicine versus the ‘Prisonhouse of the Flesh’: Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

      • Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

      Pages 205-228

   4. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario

      • Jean-Noël Missa

      Pages 229-252

   5. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in Tales of the Biotech Revolution

      • Brian Stableford

      Pages 253-269

6. Back Matter

   Pages 271-278

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Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.

• behavior
• biotechnology
• Moral
• morality
• mortality
• Nation

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

  Simone Bateman

• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

  Jean Gayon

• Université Catholique de Lyon, France

  Sylvie Allouche

• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

  Jérôme Goffette

• Université Paris Descartes, France

  Michela Marzano

Sylvie Allouche, Université Catholique de Lyon, France. Simone Bateman, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France. Christopher Coenen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France. T. Selim Eskiizmirlile, University Paris Diderot, France. Jean Gayon, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Jérôme Goffette, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France. Patrick Laure, University of Lorraine, France. Eric De Léséleuc, National Higher Institute for Special Needs Education at Suresnes, France. Anne Marcellini, Lausanne University, Switzerland. Michela Marzano, Université Paris Descartes, France. Vincent Menuz, University of Zürich, Switzerland. Ruud ter Meulen, University of Bristol, UK. Jean-Noël Missa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Pascal Nouvel, University Paul Valéry of Montpellier, France. Brian Stableford, Independent Researcher. Myriam Winance, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France.

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