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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.

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Author:   Simone Bateman ,  Sylvie Allouche ,  Jean Gayon ,  Michela Marzano
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.728kg
ISBN:  

9781137530066

ISBN 10:   1137530065
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   31 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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