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 chaptersall 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.
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.
Introduction
1. Philosophical Advice for the Age of Human Enhancement
2.
Spotlights on the History of Human Enhancement Discourse
3. To Be or Not to
Be Enhanced? Just ask the Moon in Posthuman Terms
4. Clones, Chimeras, and
Organoids
5. A Thematic Overview of Debate on the Ethics of Radical Human
Enhancement
6. Resurrecting the Body
7. Human Enhancement through the Lens of
Sex Selection
8. Does Enhancement Violate Human "Nature"?
9. Authenticity in
the Ethics of Human Enhancement
10. The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
11.
Germline Gene Editing with CRISPR
12. Framing Longevity Science and an "Aging
Enhancement"
13. Christian Theology and the Ethical Ambiguities of Aging
Attenuation
14. AI as IA
15. Clearing the Bottleneck of empirical data in the
ethics of cognitive enhancement
16. Not Extended, but Enhanced
17. Is
Enhancement with Brain-Computer Interfaces Ethical? Evidence in Favour of
Symbiotic Augmentation
18. Anticipating the Future of Neurotechnological
Enhancement
19. Moral Enhancement through Neurosurgery? Feasibility and
Ethical Justifiability
20. Transhumanism and Moral Enhancement
21. Protecting
Future Generations by Enhancing Current Generations
22. What Kinds of Moral
Bioenhancement are Desirable? What Kinds are Possible?
23. The Meaning of
Enhancement in the Post COVID-19 World
24. Clinical Practice and Human
Enhancement
25. Cyborgs and Designer Babies
26. Pharmaceutical Cognitive
Enhancement
27. Cognitive Enhancement from a Legal Perspective
28.
Enhancement and Hyperresponsibility
29. Human Flourishing or Injustice?
Social, Political and Regulatory Implications of Cognitive Enhancement
30.
Contemporary Bioethical and Legal Perspectives on Cognitive Enhancement
Fabrice Jotterand is 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 Ienca is 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).
