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Inquiring Into Human Enhancement de Sylvie Allouche

Inquiring Into Human Enhancement

Autor Sylvie Allouche, Jean Gayon, Michela Marzano, Jérôme Goffette Editat de Simone Bateman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137530066
ISBN-10: 1137530065
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: XVI, 278 p.
Dimensiuni: 144 x 226 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:2015 edition
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano

PART I: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: WHAT DO WE MEAN?
1. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What is at Stake?; Simone Bateman and Jean Gayon
2. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; Jérôme Goffette
3. Why Do We Wish to Be Enhanced; Vincent Menuz
4. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Ruud ter Meulen

PART II: LEARNING FROM ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES
5. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; Pascal Nouvel
6. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability; Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Léséleuc
7. BMI (Brain-Machine Interface) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation; Selim Eskiizmirliler and Jérôme Goffette
8. Doping Behavior as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Patrick Laure and Sylvie Allouche

PART III: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM ART AND FICTION
9. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; Christopher Coenen
10. 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
11. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; Jean-Noël Missa
12. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in ' 'Tales of the Biotech Revolution ' '; Brian Stableford

Notă biografică

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.