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Inquiring into Human Enhancement

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What Is at Stake?
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    Chapter 3 Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine
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    Chapter 4 Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?
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    Chapter 5 The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement
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    Chapter 6 A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement
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    Chapter 7 From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability
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    Chapter 8 Brain–Machine Interface (BMI) as a Tool for Understanding Human–Machine Cooperation
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    Chapter 9 Doping Behaviour as an Indicator of Performance Pressure
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    Chapter 10 The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain
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    Chapter 11 Transcendental Medicine versus the ‘Prisonhouse of the Flesh’: Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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    Chapter 12 Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario
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    Chapter 13 Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in Tales of the Biotech Revolution
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Chapter title
Why Do We Wish to be Enhanced?
Chapter number 4
Book title
Inquiring into Human Enhancement
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2015
DOI 10.1057/9781137530073_4
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-56354-8, 978-1-137-53007-3
Authors

Vincent Menuz, Menuz, Vincent

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Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 50%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 50%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 2 100%
Social Sciences 1 50%

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