The bioethics of enhancement : transhumanism, disability, and biopolitics
Melinda Hall (Author)
"[The author examines] the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. [The author] draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. [This book] includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. [The author] provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. [The author] concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished."-- Back cover
Print Book, English, 2017
Lexington Books, Lanham, 2017