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ELSI in Human Enhancement: What Distinguishes it from Therapy?
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
The Bioethics of Space Exploration
The Bioethics of Space Exploration provides a comprehensive discussion of the possible bioethical issues and challenges that may arise when considering future long-term space missions. Because of numerous threats within the space environment, many consider the concept of radically modifying humans to be a serious and perhaps even necessary option. Konrad Szocik presents what types of ethical and bioethical challenges may await participants on commercial, scientific, and colonizing missions, and provides a new perspective into the potential for radical biomedical technologies.
Futures, Visions, and Responsibility
Martin Sand explores the problems of responsibility at the early, visionary stages of technological development. He discusses the increasingly dominant concept of innovation and outlines how narratives about the future are currently used to facilitate technological change, to foster networks, and to raise public awareness for innovations. This set of activities is under increasing scrutiny as a form of “visioneering”. The author discusses intentionality and freedom as important, albeit fuzzy, preconditions for being responsible. He distinguishes being from holding responsible and explores this distinction’s effects on the problem of moral luck. Finally, he develops a virtue ethical framework to discuss visioneers’ and innovators’ responsibilities.
Your Consent Is Not Required
Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated “for their own good” than at any time in history. In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are being subjected against their will to surveillance, indefinite detention, and powerful tranquilizing drugs, restraints, seclusion, and electroshock. There’s a common misconception th...
Ethics and Emerging Technologies
First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement, geoengineering, robotics, virtual reality, artificial meat, neurotechnologies, information technologies, nanotechnology, sex selection, and more.
Cognitive Enhancement
Cognitive enhancement is the use of drugs, biotechnological strategies or other means by healthy individuals aiming at the improvement of cognitive functions such as vigilance, concentration or memory without any medical need. In particular, the use of pharmacological substances (caffeine, prescription drugs or illicit drugs) has received considerable attention during the last few years. Currently, however, little is known concerning the use of cognitive enhancers, their effects in healthy individuals and the place and function of cognitive enhancement in everyday life. The purpose of the book is to give an overview of the current research on cognitive enhancement and to provide in-depth insights into the interdisciplinary debate on cognitive enhancement.
Not a Bean
A Mexican jumping bean isn't a bean at all. It's a fascinating home and food source for a special kind of caterpillar! With Spanish vocabulary and a clever counting concept, this poetic story shares the life cycle of a Mexican jumping bean. This curious jumping insect is actually a seedpod from a shrub called yerba de la flecha, into which a caterpillar burrows, living inside the pod until it builds a cocoon and breaks out as a moth. Perfect for preschoolers and prereaders, this creative picture book explores the Mexican jumping bean's daily life and eventual transformation and escape from the pod.
Racial Baggage
Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational pro...
Hybride und Chimären
Long description: Embryonale Mischlebewesen aus menschlichem Zellkern und der Eizelle einer Kuh, Affen mit humanisierten Gehirnen, ein Schweineherz in eines Menschen Brust: Die von Biologen betriebene Erzeugung verschiedenartigster Mischwesen aus Mensch und Tier zwingt uns, die Fragen Was ist der Mensch? Was unterscheidet ihn vom Tier? neu zu denken
Ethik und Patentrecht
Das Patentrecht steht unter Legitimationsdruck. Erstens ist es zu einer Arena in Technologiediskursen geworden und wird mitunter stellvertretend für umstrittene Innovationen angegriffen. Zweitens ergeben sich ethische Fragen aus der Patentierung als solcher. Dies betrifft nicht nur sog. "Patente auf Leben". Auch bedarf der Rechtfertigung, dass Patentschutz den Zugang zu innovativen Technologien einschränken kann. Marvin Bartels nähert sich dem Verhältnis zwischen Ethik und Patentrecht auf zwei Ebenen. Einerseits untersucht er, welche Rolle ethische Erwägungen in den Zielen, den Normen und der Praxis des Patentrechts spielen und welche ethischen Dimensionen diesem zwingend zukommen. Andererseits ist die Leistungsfähigkeit patentrechtlicher Instrumente zur Erreichung ethisch relevanter Regelungsziele von Erkenntnisinteresse. Darauf aufbauend skizziert der Autor ein ethisches Fundament des Patentrechts und unterbreitet Umsetzungsvorschläge.
