Human Enhancement

by Savulescu, Julian; Bostrom, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780199299720
• ISBN10: 0199299722
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question.

Author Biography

Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Director of the Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences in the 21st Century School, University of Oxford
Nick Bostrom is Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He previously taught at Yale University in the Department of Philosophy and in the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Human Enhancement in General
Can Anyone Really Be Talking About Ethically Modifying Human Nature?	p. 25
What's Taxonomy Got to Do with It? 'Species Integrity', Human Rights, and Science Policy	p. 43
Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspective	p. 59
The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering	p. 71
What Is and Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?	p. 91
Enhancements Are a Moral Obligation	p. 131
Playing God	p. 155
Toward a More Fruitful Debate About Enhancement	p. 181
Good, Better, or Best?	p. 199
The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?	p. 211
Specific Enhancements
Is Selection of Children Wrong?	p. 251
Parental Choice and Human Improvement	p. 277
Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis	p. 291
Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport	p. 315
Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membership	p. 327
Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?	p. 341
Enhancing Our Truth Orientation	p. 357
Enhancement as a Practical Challenge
The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement	p. 375
Index	p. 417
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