The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability New Bodies for a Better
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 socia
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The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability New Bodies for a Better Life Edited by
Miriam Eilers Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Katrin Grüber Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter University of Lübeck, Germany
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Miriam Eilers, Katrin Grüber and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter 2014 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2014 Foreword © Tom Shakespeare 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-40552-4
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Contents
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
viii
Foreword: Five Thoughts About Enhancement Notes on Contributors
ix xiv
1 Refocusing the Enhancement Debate Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers, and Katrin Grüber
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Part I Norms and Body 2 On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity Interview with Jackie Leach Scully
23
3 Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition Christina Schües
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Part II Case Studies 4 Good Old Brains: How Concerns About an Aging Society and Ideas About Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience Morten H. Bülow 5 The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children Sigrid Bosteels and Stu
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