The Bioethics of Enhancement

Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Disability, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Mind & Body
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Author: Melinda Hall ISBN: 9781498533492
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 7, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Melinda Hall
ISBN: 9781498533492
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 7, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. Hall provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished.

This book will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and disability studies, along with those working in Continental philosophy (especially on Foucault).

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In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. Hall provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished.

This book will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and disability studies, along with those working in Continental philosophy (especially on Foucault).

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