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Enhancing Human Capacities

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Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane
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John Wiley & Sons, May 12, 2011 - Medical - 576 pages
Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives.
  • Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North America
  • The most comprehensive volume yet on the science and ethics of human enhancement
  • Unique in providing a detailed overview of current and expected scientific advances in this area
  • Discusses both general conceptual and ethical issues and concrete questions of policy
  • Includes sections covering all major forms of enhancement: cognitive, affective, physical, and life extension
  

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Contents

Preface
References
The Concept of Nature and the Enhancement
Enhancement Autonomy and Authenticity
Breaking Evolutions Chains The Promise
Cognition Enhancement Upgrading the Brain
References
The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive
Enhanced Bodies
Physical Enhancement What Baseline Whose
Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance Time to Relax
Enhancing Skill
Harm and Benefit
Can a Ban on Doping in Sport be Morally Justified?
Looking for the Fountain of Youth
Is Living Longer Living Better?

Enhancement and Employment
References
Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement
Smart Policy Cognitive Enhancement and the Public
Scientific Ethical and Social Issues in Mood
References
Whats in a Name? ADHD and the Gray Area between
ADHD from the Inside and the Outside
References
Aspergers Syndrome Bipolar Disorder and the Relation
Is Mood Enhancement a Legitimate Goal of Medicine?
Cognitive Therapy and Positive Psychology Combined
Developing Methods for Mood Enhancement
After Prozac
References
Physical Enhancement
Physical Enhancement The State of the
Life Extension versus Replacement
Lifespan Extension Metaphysical Basis and Ethical
Life Extension and Personal Identity
Acknowledgments
The Value of Life Extension to Persons as Conatively
PersonProcesses and the Personal Condition
Enhancing Human Aging The Cultural
AntiAging Medicine
PolicyMaking for a New Generation of Interventions
The Bioconservative Thesis
Reasons to Enhance
Implications
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics within the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also Director of the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, and Director of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, within the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. He is author of over 200 publications and has given over 100 international presentations.

Ruud ter Meulen is Chair in Ethics in Medicine, and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. Previously he worked as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Bioethics at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). He is author of over 130 publications and has given over 100 national and international presentations. He was co-ordinator of the ENHANCE project in which most of the chapters of this book were produced.

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, both at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Kahane is also Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College Oxford, and a recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award in Biomedical Ethics. Kahane has published extensively in applied ethics, metaethics and value theory.

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