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The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics)
Author(s): Fabrice Jotterand (Editor), Marcello Ienca (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: August 1, 2023
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 446 pages
- ISBN-10: 0367615797
- ISBN-13: 9780367615796
Book Description
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:
- Historical Background and Key Concepts
- Human Enhancement and Human Nature
- Physical Enhancement
- Cognitive Enhancement
- Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement
- Human Enhancement and Medicine
- 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.
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About the Author
Fabrice Jotterandis Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he is also the Director of the Kern Philosophies of Medical Education Transformation Laboratory. In addition, he holds an appointment as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel. He is also the author of the recent book The Unfit Brain and the Limits of Moral Bioenhancement (Palgrave, 2022).
Marcello Iencais Assistant Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience at the School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Munich, Germany, and a research fellow at College of Humanities, Swiss Federal institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Life Sciences, Information Technology and Human Rights (Cambridge UP, 2022).
