The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, neuroscience, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, bioengineering, and many other fields. The Handbook includes a diverse and multifaceted collection of 30 chapters—all appearing here in print for the first time— that reveal the fundamental ethical challenges related to human enhancement. The chapters have been written by internationally recognized leaders in the field and are organized into seven parts I. Historical Background and Key Concepts II. Human Enhancement and Human Nature III. Physical Enhancement IV. Cognitive Enhancement V. Mood Enhancement and Moral Enhancement VI. Human Enhancement and Medicine VII. Legal, Social, and Political Implications The depth and topical range of the Handbook makes it an essential resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in a broad variety of disciplinary areas. Furthermore, it is an authoritative reference for basic scientists, philosophers, engineers, physicians, lawyers, and other professionals who work on the topic of human enhancement. Provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, neuroscience, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, bioengineering, and many other fields. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 15 Introduction 16 Part I Historical background and key concepts 22 Chapter 1 Philosophical advice for the age of human enhancement 24 Chapter 2 Spotlights on the history of human enhancement discourse 33 Chapter 3 To be or not to be enhanced? Just ask the Moon – in posthuman terms 45 Part II Human enhancement and human nature 60 Chapter 4 Clones, chimeras, and organoids: Developmental biology and the human future 62 Chapter 5 A thematic overview: Debating the ethics of radical enhancement 92 Chapter 6 Resurrecting the ‘body’: Phenomenological perspectives on embodiment 102 Chapter 7 Human enhancement through the lens of sex selection 118 Chapter 8 Does enhancement violate human “nature”? 134 Chapter 9 Authenticity in the Ethics of Human Enhancement 148 Part III Physical enhancement 158 Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement: Key Concepts and Future Prospects 160 Chapter 11 Germline gene editing with CRISPR: A risk-analysis response to liberal eugenics 169 Chapter 12 Framing longevity science and an “aging enhancement” 177 Chapter 13 Christian theology and the ethical ambiguities of aging attenuation 190 Part IV Cognitive enhancement 202 Chapter 14 AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA) 204 Chapter 15 Clearing the bottleneck of empirical data in the ethics of cognitive enhancement 217 Chapter 16 Not extended, but enhanced: Internal improvements to cognition and the maintenance of cognitive agency 229 Chapter 17 Is enhancement with brain–computer interfaces ethical? Evidence in favor of symbiotic augmentation 239 Chapter 18 Anticipating the future of neurotechnological enhancement 252 Part V Mood enhancement and moral bioenhancement 266 Chapter 19 Moral enhancement through neurosurgery? – Feasibility and ethical justifiability 268 Chapter 20 Transhumanism and moral enhancement 282 Chapter 21 Protecting future generations by enhancing current generations 297 Chapter 22 What kinds of moral bioenhancement are desirable? What kinds are possible? 308 Part VI Human enhancement and medicine 322 Chapter 23 The meaning of enhancement in the post-COVID-19 world 324 Chapter 24 Clinical practice and human enhancement: Blurred borders and ethical issues 334 Chapter 25 Cyborgs and designer babies: The human body as a technological design space 346 Chapter 26 Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement: Entanglement with emotion, morality, and context 355 Part VII Legal, social, and political implications 372 Chapter 27 Cognitive enhancement from a legal perspective 374 Chapter 28 Enhancement and hyperresponsibility 389 Chapter 29 Human flourishing or injustice? Social, political, and regulatory implications of cognitive enhancement 404 Chapter 30 Contemporary bioethical and legal perspectives on cognitive enhancement 422 Epilogue 434 Index 437 Bioethics;,Ethics;,Genetics Bioethics,Ethics,Genetics