The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability: New Bodies for a Better Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113740552X ISBN 13: 9781137405524

Verlag: AIAA, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

How does the idea of enhancement relate to disability? At first glance, it might seem simple: enhancement is gain, disability is loss of function, but a closer looks reveals a rich and complex relationship, where the disability perspectives offers an invaluable insight in unpicking the controversy surrounding the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. While rejecting a dualistic divide between 'therapy' and 'enhancement', enhancement bioethics can benefit from the study of interdisciplinary disability studies by placing the question of a 'better life' for those who might become enhanced on experiential ground; in preventing bioethics from relying on reductionist biomedical models of functional upgrade; in considering ambivalence in and the side effects of improvements; and in making bioethics more alert to possible discriminatory implications.

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Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sigrid Bosteels, University College of West Flanders, Belgium Morten Hillgaard Bülow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sascha Dickel, Institute of Ecological Economy Research, Germany Lisa Forsberg, King's College London, UK Trijsje Franssen, University of Exeter, UK Kathrin Klohs, University of Basel, Switzerland Nikolai Münch, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany Anna G. Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland Christina Schües, University of Lübeck, Germany Jackie Leach Scully, Newcastle University, UK Tom Shakespeare, World Health Organization, UK

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 113740552X
• ISBN 13: 9781137405524
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Herausgeber: Eilers Miriam, Grüber Katrin, Rehmann-Sutter Christoph
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