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In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human
enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the
expansion and development of human capacities is a moral
obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to
reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the
conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement 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. Hall 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. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and
difference should be cherished rather than extinguished. This book
will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and
disability studies, along with those working in Continental
philosophy (especially on Foucault).
In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human
enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the
expansion and development of human capacities is a moral
obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to
reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the
conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement 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. Hall 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. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and
difference should be cherished rather than extinguished. This book
will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and
disability studies, along with those working in Continental
philosophy (especially on Foucault).
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