Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement

dc.contributor.author	Saniotis, A.
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	Since prehistory, the genus Homo has used technologies in order to enhance fitness. With the growth of bio-technologies, western medicine is improving the structure and function of the human body beyond its natural state. Bio-technological improvements in the next 50 yr promise further increases in human life span and performance. Notwithstanding the ethical argument encouraging transhumanist technologies, present human societies have yet to come to grips with the possibility of such a future world. This article will discuss future nootropic enhancers and human-animal gene splicing as possible enhancement technologies in relation to their ethical and social implications.
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	Arthur Saniotis
dc.identifier.citation	Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2013; 13(1):15-21
dc.identifier.doi	10.3354/esep00131
dc.identifier.issn	1611-8014
dc.identifier.issn	1611-8014
dc.identifier.orcid	Saniotis, A. [0000-0002-9708-6220]
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2440/81099
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Inter-Research
dc.rights	© Inter-Research 2013
dc.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00131
dc.subject	Evolution
dc.subject	Neural plasticity
dc.subject	Nootropics
dc.subject	Cosmetic neurology
dc.subject	Chimera
dc.subject	Post‑human
dc.title	Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published

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