Human enhancement is one of the most exciting - and troubling - areas of
recent scientific advance. It raises new and profound challenges
relating to the human condition as well as giving rise to serious
questions surrounding the limits and ethics of changing human nature.
This stimulating volume is the first to review the very latest
scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its
examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies
from a broad range of perspectives, including philosophy, the biological
and neurosciences, and the social sciences. The audiobook covers all
major forms of human enhancement: cognitive, mood, physical, moral and
life extension, as well as general conceptual and moral questions about
enhancement. Enhancing Human Capacities includes state of the art
reviews of the science of enhancement from different perspectives,
ethical discussion of key concepts and questions, and concrete policy
applications. The audiobook concludes with general discussions of the
policy implications of biomedical enhancement in the EU and US contexts.
All contributions are by world leading ethicists, neuroscientists and
social scientists from Europe and North America.
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University
of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
within the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also Director of the Wellcome
Centre for Neuroethics, and Director of the Program on the Ethics of the
New Biosciences, within the James Martin 21st Century School at the
University of Oxford. He is author of over 200 publications and has
given over 100 international presentations. 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 audiobook 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.
