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Book SynopsisHuman enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano
PART I: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: WHAT DO WE MEAN?
1. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What is at Stake?; Simone Bateman and Jean Gayon
2. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; Jérôme Goffette
3. Why Do We Wish to Be Enhanced; Vincent Menuz
4. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Ruud ter Meulen
PART II: LEARNING FROM ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES
5. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; Pascal Nouvel
6. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability; Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Léséleuc
7. BMI (Brain-Machine Interface) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation; Selim Eskiizmirliler and Jérôme Goffette
8. Doping Behavior as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Patrick Laure and Sylvie Allouche
PART III: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM ART AND FICTION
9. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; Christopher Coenen
10. Transcendental Medicine Versus the ' 'Prisonhouse of the Flesh ' ': Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson ' 's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
11. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; Jean-Noël Missa
12. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in ' 'Tales of the Biotech Revolution ' '; Brian Stableford
