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Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condi...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137405531 |
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Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137405524. |
| Carrier Form: | 280 p. : 2 figures. |
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9781137405531 : 1137405538 : |
| CLC: | R195 |
| Contents: | Preface-- Tom Shakespeare 1. Looking at Human Enhancement through the Disability Lens-- Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Miriam Eilers and Katrin Grube PART I: NORMS AND BODY 2. On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity-- Jackie Leach Scully 3. Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition-- Christina Schues PART II: CASE STUDIES 4. Good Old Brains: How Concerns about the Ageing Society and Ideas about Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience-- Morten Bulow 5. The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children- |