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Global issues and ethical considerations in human enhancement technologies /

"This book compiles prestigious research and provides a well-rounded composite of role of human enhancement technologies in emerging areas for those involved in computer science and the humanities, as well as many engaged in a humanities approach to metasystems, new artificial life, and robotic...

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Thompson, Steven John, 1956- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Biomedical engineering > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical instruments and apparatus.
Biomedical Enhancement > ethics.
Human experimentation > Ethics.
Digital society
Emerging technologies
Engineering ethics
Freedom in experimentation
Human enhancement technology
Human rights and values
Human-computer interface
Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-6010-6
Summary: "This book compiles prestigious research and provides a well-rounded composite of role of human enhancement technologies in emerging areas for those involved in computer science and the humanities, as well as many engaged in a humanities approach to metasystems, new artificial life, and robotics"--Provided by publisher.
Carrier Form: PDFs (327 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781466660113
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: R856
CLC: R318
Contents: Ethics, wearable technology, and higher education: toward a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction / Marcia Alesan Dawkins -- Anticipating human enhancement: identifying ethical issues of bodyware / Deniz Tun calp, Mary Helen Fagan -- Mapping human enhancement rhetoric / Kevin A. Thayer -- Human enhancement: living up to the ideal human / Johann A. R. Roduit, Vincent Menuz, Holger Baumann -- The ethics of seeking body perfection, with continual reference to Heidi Montag / Brett Lunceford -- Neurosurgery to enhance brain function: ethical dilemmas for the neuroscientist and society / Reuben David Johnson, Dirk De Ridder, Grant Gillett -- Super soldiers (part 1): What is military human enhancement? / Patrick Lin, Max Mehlman, Keith Abney, Jai Galliott -- Super soldiers (part 2): The ethical, legal, and operational implications / Patrick Lin, Max Mehlman, Keith Abney, Shannon French, Shannon Vallor, Jai Galliott, Michael Burnam-Fink, Alexander R. LaCroix, Seth Schuknecht -- Human enhancing technologies and individual privacy right / Joanna Kulesza -- Human enhancement technologies and democratic citizenship / Jean-Paul Gagnon -- Defining and analyzing disability in human enhancement / Dev Bose -- Technic self-determination / Franco Cortese -- Technology and the memetic self / Elizabeth J. Falck -- Enhancement and identity: a social psychological perspective / Samuel G. Wilson.

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