Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity
As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age. This volume contributes
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The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology VOLUME 2
Editors Anthony Mark Cutter, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Bert Gordijn, Ethics Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland Gary E. Marchant, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, University of Arizona, USA Alain Pompidou, Former President, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
Editorial Board Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic & Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff, UK Henk ten Have, Director, UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Paris, France Søren Holm, Director, Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society, Cardiff, UK George Khushf, Humanities Director, Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, USA Dieter Birnbacher, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany Edmund Pellegrino, Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, USA Graeme Laurie, Co-Director, AHRC Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, UK Bartha Maria Knoppers, Chair in Law and Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King’s College London, UK Paul Stephen Dempsey, Professor & Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law, Université de Montréal, Canada Justice Michael Kirby; High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia Rene Oosterlinck, Director of External Relations, European Space Agency, Paris Serge Gutwirth, Professor of Human Rights, Comparative Law, Legal theory and Methodology, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium John Weckert, Professor, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia Michael Froomkin, Professor, University of Miami Law School, Florida, USA David Krieger, President, The Waging Peace Foundation, California, USA
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Bert Gordijn • Ruth Chadwick Editors
Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity
Editors Bert Gordijn Ethics Institute Dublin City University Ireland [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4020-8851-3
Ruth Chadwick University of Cardiff Cardiff Law School Museum Avenue Cardiff United Kingdom CF10 3AT [email protected]
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-8852-0
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Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................... Bert Gordijn and Ruth Chadwick
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Part I Medical Enhancement 1
The History of Medical Enhancement: From Restituti
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