Enhancing human capacities /
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| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. |
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| Description: | xviii, 557 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8367768 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I. Key Concepts and Questions
- 1. Well-Being and Enhancement
- 2. The Concept of Nature and the Enhancement Technologies Debate
- 3. Enhancement, Autonomy, and Authenticity
- 4. Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Promise of Enhancement by Design
- Part II. Cognitive Enhancement
- 5. Cognition Enhancement: Upgrading the Brain
- 6. The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive Enhancement
- 7. Cognitive Enhancing Drugs: Neuroscience and Society
- 8. Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement
- 9. Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement and the Public Interest
- Part III. Mood Enhancement
- 10. Scientific, Ethical, and Social Issues in Mood Enhancement
- 11. Reasons to Feel, Reasons to Take Pills
- 12. What's in a Name? ADHD and the Gray Area between Treatment and Enhancement
- 13. What is Good or Bad in Mood Enhancement?
- 14. Asperger's Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder and the Relation between Mood, Cognition, and Well-Being
- 15. Is Mood Enhancement a Legitimate Goal of Medicine?
- 16. Cognitive Therapy and Positive Psychology Combined: A Promising Approach to the Enhancement of Happiness
- 17. After Prozac
- Part IV. Physical Enhancement
- 18. Physical Enhancement
- 19. Physical Enhancement: The State of the Art
- 20. Enhanced Bodies
- 21. Physical Enhancement: What Baseline, Whose Judgment?
- 22. Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance: Time to Relax Doping Controls
- 23. Enhancing Skill
- 24. Can a Ban on Doping in Sport be Morally Justified?
- Part V. Lifespan Extension
- 25. Looking for the Fountain of Youth: Scientific, Ethical, and Social Issues in the Extension of Human Lifespan
- 26. Is Living Longer Living Better?
- 27. Life Extension versus Replacement
- 28. Lifespan Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical Outcomes
- 29. Life Extension and Personal Identity
- 30. Intergenerational Justice and Lifespan Extension
- 31. The Value of Life Extension to Persons as Conatively Driven Processes
- 32. Enhancing Human Aging: The Cultural and Psychosocial Context of Lifespan Extension
- 33. Policy-Making for a New Generation of Interventions in Age-Related Disease and Decline
- Part VI. Moral Enhancement
- 34. Moral Enhancement
- 35. Unfit for the Future? Human Nature, Scientific Progress, and the Need for Moral Enhancement
- Part VII. General Policy
- 36. Of Nails and Hammers: Human Biological Enhancement and U.S. Policy Tools
- 37. The Politics of Human Enhancement and the European Union
- Index
