The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability: New Bodies for a Better Life

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Refocusing the Enhancement Debate....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
On Unfamiliar Moral Territory: About Variant Embodiment, Enhancement and Normativity....Pages 23-37
Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition....Pages 38-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Good Old Brains: How Concerns About an Aging Society and Ideas About Cognitive Enhancement Interact in Neuroscience....Pages 67-80
The Making and Unmaking of Deaf Children....Pages 81-100
Token of Loss: Enthography of Cancer Rehabilitation and Restoration of Affected Lives in Kenya....Pages 101-124
Singing Better by Sacrificing Sex....Pages 125-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Mood Enhancement and the Authenticity of Experience: Ethical Considerations....Pages 147-160
Prometheus Descends: Disabled or Enhanced? John Harris, Human Enhancement, and the Creation of a New Norm....Pages 161-182
More Human than Human!: How Recent Hollywood Films Depict Enhancement Technologies — And Why....Pages 183-203
Transhumanism’s Anthropological Assumptions: A Critique....Pages 204-226
Be Afraid of the Unmodified Body! The Social Construction of Risk in Enhancement Utopianism....Pages 227-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-257