The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability

Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition.

This book brings out a new voice from the disability studies perspective in the debate regarding human enhancement. Therefore, I heartily recommend this book to everyone interested in ethical issues involved and especially to those that are interested in an intersection between bioethics and disability studies. The book is a great example of how various scientific fields can significantly contribute to the ongoing debate on human enhancement. (Anto artolovni, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 37, 2016)

"An important and welcome development to see a selection of studies that explores how bioethics and disability studies can influence each other to ask new questions." - Disability and Society

Autorentext
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

Klappentext

Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition.

Inhalt
Preface; Tom Shakespeare 1. Looking at Human Enhancement through the Disability Lens; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers and Katrin Grübe PART I: NORMS AND BODY 2. On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity; Jackie Leach Scully 3. Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition; Christina Schües PART II: CASE STUDIES 4. Good Old Brains: How Concerns about the Ageing Society and Ideas about Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience; Morten Bülow 5. The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children; Sigrid Bosteels and Stuart Blume 6. Token of the Loss: Ethnography of Artificial Restoration of Cancer Patients' Bodies and Lives in Kenya; Benson Mulemi 7. Singing Better by Sacrificing Sex; Anna Piotrowska PART III. UTOPIAN IDEAS AND REAL EMBODIMENT 8. Mood Enhancement and the Authenticity of Experience: Ethical Considerations; Lisa Forsberg 9. Prometheus Descends - Disabled or Enhanced?: John Harris,Human Enhancement, and the Creation of a New Norm; Trijsje Franssen 10. More Human than Human!: How Recent Hollywood Films Depict Enhancement Technologies and Why; Kathrin Klohs 11. Transhumanism's Anthropological Assumptions: A Critique; Nicolai Münch 12. Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism; Sascha Dickel