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The human enhancement debate and disability : new bodies for a better life /
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 s...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Looking at human enhancement through the disability lens / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers, and Katrin Grüber
- On unfamiliar moral territory : about variant embodiment, enhancement, and normativity / Jackie Leach Scully
- Improving deficiencies : historical, anthropological, and ethical aspects of the human condition / Christina Schües
- Good old brains : how concerns about the ageing society and ideas about cognitive enhancement interact in neuroscience / Morten Bülow
- The making and unmaking of deaf children / Sigrid Bosteels and Stuart Blume
- Token of the loss : ethnography of artificial restoration of cancer patients' bodies and lives in Kenya / Benson Mulemi
- Singing better by sacrificing sex / Anna Piotrowska
- Mood enhancement and the authenticity of experience : ethical considerations / Lisa Forsberg
- Prometheus descends : disabled or enhanced? / John Harris
- Human enhancement, and the creation of a new norm / Trijsje Franssen
- More human than human! how recent Hollywood films depict enhancement technologies and why / Kathrin Klohs
- Transhumanism's anthropological assumptions : a critique / Nicolai Münch
- Be afraid of the unmodified body! the social construction of risk in enhancement utopianism / Sascha Dickel.