Overview
- Critically examines present and future technologies for human enhancement
- Identifies strengths and weaknesses in the transhumanist and bioconservative arguments for and against human enhancement
- Introduces the notion that death is a process rather than an event
- Identifies philosophical and clinical limitations in contemporary brain death determination
- Clarifies philosophical and clinical issues in the realm of cryonic suspension
Part of the book series: Anticipation Science (ANTISC, volume 3)
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The author also introduces the notion that death is a process rather than an event, as well as identifies philosophical and clinical limitations in the contemporary determination of brain death as a precursor to organ procurement for transplantation. The discussion on what exactly it means to be dead is later applied to explore philosophical and clinical issues germane to the cryonics movement.
Written by a physician/ scientist and heavily referenced to the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature, the book is aimed at advanced students and academics but should be readable by any intelligent reader willing to carry out some side-reading. No prior knowledge of moral philosophy is assumed, as the various key approaches to moral philosophy are outlined early in the book.
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Book Title: What Does it Mean to be Human? Life, Death, Personhood and the Transhumanist Movement
Authors: D. John Doyle
Series Title: Anticipation Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94950-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94949-9Published: 18 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06942-1Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94950-5Published: 01 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-039X
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0403
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Moral Philosophy, Computers and Society, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Medicine