Inquiring into human enhancement

interdisciplinary and international perspectives

Simone Bateman, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.

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Introduction

Bateman Simone; Allouche Sylvie

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19-37
The concept and practices of human enhancement

Bateman Simone

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38-59
Enhancement

Goffette Jérôme

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60-85
Why do we wish to be enhanced?

Menuz Vincent

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The moral ambiguity of human enhancement

ter Meulen Ruud

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103-118
A scale and a paradigmatic framework for human enhancement

Nouvel Pascal

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119-137
From repair to enhancement

Winance Myriam; Marcellini Anne; de Léséleuc Éric

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138-160
Brain–machine interface (bmi) as a tool for understanding human–machine cooperation

Eskiizmirliler Selim; Goffette Jérôme

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161-180
Doping behaviour as an indicator of performance pressure

Laure Patrick; Allouche Sylvie

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183-204
The earth as our footstool

Coenen Christopher

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205-228
Transcendental medicine versus the "prisonhouse of the flesh"

Dupeyron-Lafay Françoise

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229-252
Biotechnology and the future of sport

Missa Jean-Noël

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253-269
Adaptation and emortality

Stableford Brian

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