Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way.

Author: Laura Y. Cabrera
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/27/2015
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781137402233

About the Author

Laura Cabrera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on neuroethics and emergent technologies, especially those connected to uses of neurotechnologies and individual/societal implications and perspectives.