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A theory of the super soldier : The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military /
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies; 2 The moral obligation of soldier enhancement research; 3 Military capacity-increasing technologies and their consequences; 4 The ethics of developing capacity-increasing technologies; 5 Permanent capacity-increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger; Conclusion; Index.