Enhancing Human Capacities

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives. Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North America The most comprehensive volume yet on the science and ethics of human enhancement Unique in providing a detailed overview of current and expected scientific advances in this area Discusses both general conceptual and ethical issues and concrete questions of policy Includes sections covering all major forms of enhancement: cognitive, affective, physical, and life extension

Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics within the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also Director of the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, and Director of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, within the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. He is author of over 200 publications and has given over 100 international presentations.

Ruud ter Meulen is Chair in Ethics in Medicine, and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. Previously he worked as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Bioethics at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). He is author of over 130 publications and has given over 100 national and international presentations. He was co-ordinator of the ENHANCE project in which most of the chapters of this book were produced.

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, both at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Kahane is also Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College Oxford, and a recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award in Biomedical Ethics. Kahane has published extensively in applied ethics, metaethics and value theory.

Preface
Key Concepts and Questions
Introduction: Wellbeing and the Concept of Enhancement
The Concept of Nature and the Enhancement Technologies Debate
Enhancement, Autonomy and Authenticity
Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Promise of Enhancement by Design
Cognitive Enhancement
Introduction: Cognition Enhancement--Upgrading the Brain
The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive Enhancement
Cognitive Enhancing Drugs: Neuroscience and Society
Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement
Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement in the Public Interest
Mood Enhancement
Introduction: Feeling Better - Scientific, Ethical and Social Issues in Mood Enhancement
Reasons to Feel, Reasons to take Pills
What's In a Name- ADHD and the Grey Area Between Treatment and Enhancement
What Is Good or Bad In Mood Enhancement?
Asperger's Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder and the Relation between Mood, Cognition and Well-Being
Is Mood Enhancement a Legitimate Goal of Medicine?
Cognitive Therapy and Positive Psychology Combined: A Promising Approach to the Enhancement of Happiness
After Prozac
Physical Enhancement
Introduction: Physical Enhancement
Physical Enhancement - The State of the Art
Enhanced Bodies
Physical Enhancement: What Baseline, Whose Judgement?
Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance: Time to Relax Doping Controls
Enhancing Skill
Can a Ban on Doping in Sport be Morally Justified?
Life Extension
Introduction: Looking for the Fountain of Youth: Scientific, Ethical and Social Issues in the Extension of Human Lifespan
Is Living Longer Living Better?
Life Extension versus Replacement
Life Span Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical Outcomes
Lifespan Extension and Personal Identity
Intergenerational Justice and Lifespan Extension
The Value of Life Extension to Persons as Conatively-Driven Processes
Enhancing Human Ageing: The Cultural and Psychosocial Context of Life-Span Extension
Policy Making for a New Generation of Interventions in Age-Related Disease and Decline
Moral Enhancement
Moral Enhancement
Unfit for the Future?: Human Nature, Scientific Progress and the Need for Moral Enhancement
General Policy
Of Nails and Hammers: Human Biological Enhancement and American Policy Tools
The Politics of Human Enhancement and the European Union
Notes on Contributors
Index
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