The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement

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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 chapters—all 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 I. Historical Background and Key Concepts II. Human Enhancement and Human Nature III. Physical Enhancement IV. Cognitive Enhancement V. Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement VI. Human Enhancement and Medicine VII. 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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Historical background and key concepts Chapter 1 Philosophical advice for the age of human enhancement Chapter 2 Spotlights on the history of human enhancement discourse Chapter 3 To be or not to be enhanced? Just ask the Moon – in posthuman terms Part II Human enhancement and human nature Chapter 4 Clones, chimeras, and organoids: Developmental biology and the human future Chapter 5 A thematic overview: Debating the ethics of radical enhancement Chapter 6 Resurrecting the ‘body’: Phenomenological perspectives on embodiment Chapter 7 Human enhancement through the lens of sex selection Chapter 8 Does enhancement violate human “nature”? Chapter 9 Authenticity in the Ethics of Human Enhancement Part III Physical enhancement Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement: Key Concepts and Future Prospects Chapter 11 Germline gene editing with CRISPR: A risk-analysis response to liberal eugenics Chapter 12 Framing longevity science and an “aging enhancement” Chapter 13 Christian theology and the ethical ambiguities of aging attenuation Part IV Cognitive enhancement Chapter 14 AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA) Chapter 15 Clearing the bottleneck of empirical data in the ethics of cognitive enhancement Chapter 16 Not extended, but enhanced: Internal improvements to cognition and the maintenance of cognitive agency Chapter 17 Is enhancement with brain–computer interfaces ethical? Evidence in favor of symbiotic augmentation Chapter 18 Anticipating the future of neurotechnological enhancement Part V Mood enhancement and moral bioenhancement Chapter 19 Moral enhancement through neurosurgery? – Feasibility and ethical justifiability Chapter 20 Transhumanism and moral enhancement Chapter 21 Protecting future generations by enhancing current generations Chapter 22 What kinds of moral bioenhancement are desirable? What kinds are possible? Part VI Human enhancement and medicine Chapter 23 The meaning of enhancement in the post-COVID-19 world Chapter 24 Clinical practice and human enhancement: Blurred borders and ethical issues Chapter 25 Cyborgs and designer babies: The human body as a technological design space Chapter 26 Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: Entanglement with emotion, morality, and context Part VII Legal, social, and political implications Chapter 27 Cognitive enhancement from a legal perspective Chapter 28 Enhancement and hyperresponsibility Chapter 29 Human flourishing or injustice? Social, political, and regulatory implications of cognitive enhancement Chapter 30 Contemporary bioethical and legal perspectives on cognitive enhancement Epilogue Index