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The purpose of this book is to offer a proposal for how to address a great variety of ethical concerns and arguments in the HCE field, going beyond the polarised philosophical debate, and contributing to more concrete and nuanced ethically sensitive decision making by private and public decision makers on specific HCE applications.

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    Bostrom (2005) includes the following in this category: Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama, George Annas, Wesley Smith, Jeremy Rifkin, and Bill McKibben.

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    See for instance http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/more-than-human-the-ethics-of-biologically-enhancing-soldiers/253217/. Accessed 1 May 2016.

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    Off-label use refers to “the prescription of drugs for a purpose that is not included in the drug’s approved label” (Schermer et al. 2009, p. 78).

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    Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Clare Shelley-Egan, Erik Thorstensen & Laurens Landeweerd

  2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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Forsberg, EM., Shelley-Egan, C., Thorstensen, E., Landeweerd, L., Hofmann, B. (2017). Introduction. In: Evaluating Ethical Frameworks for the Assessment of Human Cognitive Enhancement Applications. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53823-5_1

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