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The human enhancement debate and disabilitynew bodies for a better life /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The human enhancement debate and disabilityEdited by Miriam Eilers, Katrin Gruber, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter.
Reminder of title:	new bodies for a better life /
Author:	Eilers, Miriam,
other author:	Gruber, Katrin,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014.
Description:	280 p. :2 figures.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Notes:	Epublication based on: 9781137405524.
Subject:	Bioethics.
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137405538 (electronic bk.) :

The human enhancement debate and disabilitynew bodies for a better life /
Eilers, Miriam,

The human enhancement debate and disabilitynew bodies for a better life /[electronic resource] :Edited by Miriam Eilers, Katrin Gruber, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 280 p. :2 figures.

Electronic book text.

Preface-- Tom Shakespeare 1. Looking at Human Enhancement through the Disability Lens-- Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers and Katrin Grube 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 Schues PART II: CASE STUDIES 4. Good Old Brains: How Concerns about the Ageing Society and Ideas about Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience-- Morten Bulow 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 Munch 12. Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism-- Sascha Dickel.

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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.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 surrounding the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. While rejecting a dualistic divide between 'therapy' and 'enhancement', enhancement bioethics can benefit from the study of interdisciplinary disability studies by placing the question of a 'better life' for those who might become enhanced on experiential ground; in preventing bioethics from relying on reductionist biomedical models of functional upgrade; in considering ambivalence in and the side effects of improvements; and in making bioethics more alert to possible discriminatory implications.

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Miriam Eilers is Physician at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Katrin Gruber is Director of the Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Germany. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter is Professor for Ethics at the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lubeck, Germany.

ISBN: 1137405538 (electronic bk.) :£65.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Bioethics.

LC Class. No.: QH332

Dewey Class. No.: 362.4

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