Inquiring into Human Enhancement
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Authors: Allouche, S., Gayon, J., Marzano, M., Goffette, J.
Editors: Bateman, Simone (Ed.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-16
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The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?
Pages 19-37
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Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine
Pages 38-59
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Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?
Pages 60-85
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The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement
Pages 86-99
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Inquiring into Human Enhancement
- Book Subtitle
- Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
- Authors
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- Sylvie Allouche
- Jean Gayon
- Michela Marzano
- Jérôme Goffette
- Editors
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- Simone Bateman
- Series Title
- Health, Technology and Society
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-53007-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137530073
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-53006-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 278
- Topics
