Enhancing Human Capacities
关于此电子书
- 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
作者简介
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.
