Human Enhancement by Savulescu, Julian; Bostrom, Nick;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 28 October 2010

ISBN 9780199594962
Binding Paperback
No. of pages432 pages
Size 235x162x25 mm
Weight 646 g
Language English

Short description:

To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now.

Long description:

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question.

Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities to increase or modulate cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and to control the biological processes underlying normal aging. Some have suggested that such advances would take us beyond the bounds of human nature.

These trends, and these dramatic prospects, raise profound ethical questions. They have generated intense public debate and have become a central topic of discussion within practical ethics. Should we side with bioconservatives, and forgo the use of any biomedical interventions aimed at enhancing human capacities? Should we side with transhumanists and embrace the new opportunities? Or should we perhaps plot some middle course?

Human Enhancement presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.

Review from previous edition An excellent discussion by leading bioethicists of the issues raised by human enhancement. It would be excellent for use in classes devoted to spending at least a few weeks on enhancement, either at the upper-level undergraduate or graduate level.

Introduction: Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate
Part I - Human Enhancement in General
Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human nature?
"Alter-ing" Human Nature? Misplaced Essentialism in Science Policy
Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspective
The Case Against Perfection: What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering
What Is And Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?
Enhancements Are A Moral Obligation
Playing God
Toward a More Fruitful Debate about Enhancement
Good, Better, or Best?
The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?
Part II Specific Enhancements
Is Selection of Children Wrong?
Parental Choice and Human Improvement
Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis
Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport
Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category Membership
Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?
Enhancing Our Truth Orientation
Part III- Enhancement as a Practical Challenge
The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement