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E-raamat: Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

Edited by , Edited by (Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum, Italy), Edited by (UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Italy), Edited by (Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome, Italy)
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"This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon ourunderstanding of human nature and the impact on future generations. Drawing on the Catholic tradition in particular, the book gathers international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives. Together they offer a positive step in an ongoing dialogue regarding the promises and perils of emergent technology for man's integral human development"--

This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact on future generations. Drawing on the Catholic tradition, in particular, the book gathers international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives. Together they offer a positive step in an ongoing dialogue regarding the promises and perils of emergent technology for man’s integral human development.



What constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences? Drawing on the Catholic tradition in particular,  international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives.

Contributors viii
Preface: The challenge of imperfection x
Introduction: An interdisciplinary reflection on the impact of emerging technologies on humanity xiii
PART I Scientific perspectives on emerging technologies
1(44)
1 Emerging and converging technologies: The state of the art in therapeutics
3(4)
Francisco Jose Ballesta
2 Cognitive and memory neuroenhancement
7(11)
Mirko Daniel Garasic
3 Is neuroenhancement ethical or unethical?: An open issue
18(15)
Donatella Marazziti
Federico Mucci
4 Enhancement and doping in sports
33(12)
Simona Pichini
PART II Philosophical perspectives on emerging technologies
45(132)
5 Anthropological and neuroethical elements of the pursuit of neurocybernetic immortality in the global 2045 initiative
47(8)
Alberto Carrara
6 For and against human enhancement
55(11)
Laura Palazzani
7 Human nature and the philosophical challenges of a post-human society
66(6)
Louis Melahn
8 Toward the abolition of the idea of human nature and the ushering in of another "advent of a New Man"
72(14)
Elena Postigo Solana
9 Healthier than healthy: The moral case for therapeutic enhancements
86(9)
Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco
10 Resisting the temptations of perfection
95(15)
Joseph Tham
11 From gender to transgender and transhumanism
110(19)
Francesco Giordano
12 A Thomistic assessment of contemporary transhumanism as a postmodern, secular, liberal movement
129(48)
Michael Baggot
PART III Social and legal perspectives on emerging technologies
177(32)
13 Which juridic norms should regulate new converging technologies?
179(12)
Stefano Semplici
14 The Impact of neurotechnologies on human rights and justice
191(18)
Alberto Garcia Gomez
Chiara Ariano
PART IV Religious perspectives on emerging technologies and transhumanism
209(18)
15 Buddhist reflections on the development of biotechnology
211(4)
Maria Angela Fala
16 Islam and transhumanism
215(8)
Ilhamallah Chiara Ferrero
17 Questions and answers on human enhancement in the Jewish tradition
223(4)
Mirko Daniel Garasic
Index 227
Michael Baggot is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy.

Alberto García Gómez is Pro-Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.

Alberto Carrara is Coordinator of the Italian Research Group in Neurobioethics in Rome, Italy.

Joseph Tham is Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy.
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