Unnatural selection : the challenges of engineering tomorrow's people /

Unnatural selection : the challenges of engineering tomorrow's people /

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Imprint:London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
Description:xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Science in society series
Science in society series.
Subject:
Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Rejuvenation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Longevity -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Medical ethics -- Congresses.
Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics -- Congresses.
Bioethical Issues -- Congresses.
Biomedical Enhancement -- methods -- Congresses.
Life Expectancy -- trends -- Congresses.
Longevity -- ethics -- Congresses.
Longevity -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8444795
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Other authors / contributors:Healey, Peter, 1942-
Rayner, Steve, 1953-
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ISBN:9781844076222 (hardback)
1844076229 (hardback)
Notes:Based on a conference entitled "Tomorrow's People: the Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement" which was organized by the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University's Saìˆd Business School and held in Oxford in 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-264) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Radical Evolution: An Overview of the Near Future
  • Part II. One World Or Several?
  • 3. Tomorrow's People, Today's Challenges
  • 4. Personality Enhancement and Transfer
  • 5. On 'Life-Enhancing' Technologies and the Democratic Discourse: A South Asian Perspective
  • Part III. The Nature Of Human Natures
  • 6. Beyond Human Nature
  • 7. Are Disabled People Human?
  • 8. Biotechnology and its Spiritual Opposition
  • Part IV. Longer?
  • 9. Understanding Global Ageing
  • 10. The Ageing Process: An Evolution in Our Understanding
  • 11. Postponing Ageing: Re-identifying the Experts
  • 12. In Pursuit of the Longevity Dividend
  • 13. From Ageing Research to Preventive Medicine: Pathways and Obstacles
  • Part V. Stronger?
  • 14. Engineering Challenges to Regenerative Medicine
  • 15. Longevity and Regeneration
  • 16. Augmenting Human Beings
  • Part VI. Smarter?
  • 17. Brain Boosters
  • 18. Pharmacological Enhancement of Cognition
  • 19. The Economics of Brain Emulations
  • Part VII. Happier?
  • 20. Happier: A Psychopharmacology Perspective
  • 21. What's Your Mission in Life? Why Being Happy Should Not Be Your Priority
  • Part VIII. Fairer?
  • 22. Enhancement and Fairness
  • 23. Towards a Fairer Distribution of Technology in Maintaining Human Health: An Example of Child Immunization in Western China
  • 24. Ableism, Enhancement Medicine and the Techno-Poor Disabled
  • Part IX. Governable?
  • 25. Governance of New and Emerging Science and Technology
  • 26. Governing Our Future Selves
  • 27. Global Population Ageing and the World's Future Human Capital
  • Part X. Postscript
  • 28. Choosing our Biological Future
  • References
  • Index
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