The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, neuroscience, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, bioengineering, and many other fields. The Handbook includes a diverse and multifaceted collection of 30 chapters—all appearing here in print for the first time— that reveal the fundamental ethical challenges related to human enhancement. The chapters have been written by internationally recognized leaders in the field and are organized into seven parts
I. Historical Background and Key Concepts
II. Human Enhancement and Human Nature
III. Physical Enhancement
IV. Cognitive Enhancement
V. Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement
VI. Human Enhancement and Medicine
VII. Legal, Social, and Political Implications
The depth and topical range of the Handbook makes it an essential resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in a broad variety of disciplinary areas. Furthermore, it is an authoritative reference for basic scientists, philosophers, engineers, physicians, lawyers, and other professionals who work on the topic of human enhancement.
Author(s): Fabrice Jotterand, Marcello Ienca
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 445
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Historical background and key concepts
Chapter 1 Philosophical advice for the age of human enhancement
Chapter 2 Spotlights on the history of human enhancement discourse
Chapter 3 To be or not to be enhanced? Just ask the Moon – in posthuman terms
Part II Human enhancement and human nature
Chapter 4 Clones, chimeras, and organoids: Developmental biology and the human future
Chapter 5 A thematic overview: Debating the ethics of radical enhancement
Chapter 6 Resurrecting the ‘body’: Phenomenological perspectives on embodiment
Chapter 7 Human enhancement through the lens of sex selection
Chapter 8 Does enhancement violate human “nature”?
Chapter 9 Authenticity in the Ethics of Human Enhancement
Part III Physical enhancement
Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement: Key Concepts and Future Prospects
Chapter 11 Germline gene editing with CRISPR: A risk-analysis response to liberal eugenics
Chapter 12 Framing longevity science and an “aging enhancement”
Chapter 13 Christian theology and the ethical ambiguities of aging attenuation
Part IV Cognitive enhancement
Chapter 14 AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA)
Chapter 15 Clearing the bottleneck of empirical data in the ethics of cognitive enhancement
Chapter 16 Not extended, but enhanced: Internal improvements to cognition and the maintenance of cognitive agency
Chapter 17 Is enhancement with brain–computer interfaces ethical? Evidence in favor of symbiotic augmentation
Chapter 18 Anticipating the future of neurotechnological enhancement
Part V Mood enhancement and moral bioenhancement
Chapter 19 Moral enhancement through neurosurgery? – Feasibility and ethical justifiability
Chapter 20 Transhumanism and moral enhancement
Chapter 21 Protecting future generations by enhancing current generations
Chapter 22 What kinds of moral bioenhancement are desirable? What kinds are possible?
Part VI Human enhancement and medicine
Chapter 23 The meaning of enhancement in the post-COVID-19 world
Chapter 24 Clinical practice and human enhancement: Blurred borders and ethical issues
Chapter 25 Cyborgs and designer babies: The human body as a technological design space
Chapter 26 Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: Entanglement with emotion, morality, and context
Part VII Legal, social, and political implications
Chapter 27 Cognitive enhancement from a legal perspective
Chapter 28 Enhancement and hyperresponsibility
Chapter 29 Human flourishing or injustice? Social, political, and regulatory implications of cognitive enhancement
Chapter 30 Contemporary bioethical and legal perspectives on cognitive enhancement
Epilogue
Index
