Playing God,Playing Adam: The Politics and Ethics of Enhancement |
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Authors: | Joanna Zylinska |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK |
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Abstract: | The question of enhancement occupies a prominent place not only in current bioethical debates but also in wider public discussions
about our human future. In all of these, the problem of enhancement is usually articulated via two sets of questions: moral
questions over its permissibility, extent and direction; and technical questions over the feasibility of different forms of
regenerative and synthetic alterations to human bodies and minds. This article argues that none of the dominant positions
on enhancement within the field of bioethics is entirely satisfactory due to the limited, monadic, pre-technological and non-cultural
conception of the human that is adopted in these models. Critically engaging with both opponents of enhancement (Habermas)
and its advocates (Harris, Agar, Bostrom, Dworkin), Zylinska also takes some steps towards outlining a nonnormative ethics
of enhancement. The latter sees its human and non-human subjects as always already enhanced, and hence dependent, relational
and coevolving with technology. |
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