03779namaa2200733uu 4500 oapen49605 oapen 20251217011900.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2016a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 960210112 OCoLC 9780198754855 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754855.001.0001 doi (OCoLC)960210112 oapen oapen eng dc P thema PS thema PSB thema Clarke, Steve aut The Ethics of Human Enhancement Understanding the Debate Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities and be able to do so in more ways in the not-too-distant future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of human enhancement technologies becoming widely used, while others have viewed it with alarm and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. Unfortunately the debate over the ethics of human enhancement appears to have reached an impasse, with proponents and opponents of human enhancement drawing on different intellectual traditions, relying on different methodologies and 'talking past one another'. In order to move this debate forward, we need either to find new ways of understanding the current debate or to develop new ways of thinking about the ethics of human enhancement. In this volume leading philosophers and bioethicists invite us to adopt new ways to think about the ongoing debate, either by drawing on work in psychology that helps to explain common reactions to the prospect of human enhancement or by finding points of comparison between the current debate about the ethics of human enhancement and other academic debates, such as the debate about justice for people with disabilities. Other contributors offer original lines of argument about the ethics of human enhancement and seek to take that debate in new directions. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Ethics. Humanistic ethics. Ethics Morale humaniste. Morale. Progrès médical. Biochemistry. bicssc Biochemistry thema Biology, life sciences thema Enhancement Medizinische Ethik gnd ethics (philosophy) aat Ethics fast Humanistic ethics fast Mathematics and Science thema PHILOSOPHY Movements Humanism. bisacsh Biomedical Enhancement Biotechnology ethics Genetic Engineering ethics bioethicists drug therapies human enhancement intellectual traditions people with disabilities philosophers Clarke, Steve edt Coady, C.A.J. (Tony) edt Giubilini, Alberto edt Sanyal, Sagar edt Savulescu, Julian edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49605 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37718 37718