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200 10$aWhat does it mean to be human? life, death, personhood and the transhumanist movement /$fby D. John Doyle
205   $a1st ed. 2018.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing,$d2018.
215   $a1 online resource (xxiii, 213 pages)
225 1 $aAnticipation Science,$x2522-039X ;$v3
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327   $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Biomedical Ethics -- Chapter 3. Humans, Transhumans and Humanoids -- Chapter 4. Pharmacologic Enhancement: Possibilities and Perils -- Chapter 5. Life, Death, and Brain Death -- Chapter 6. Cryonic Life Extension: Scientific Possibility or Stupid Pipe Dream? -- Chapter 7. Defending Attacks Against Transhumanism -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. Appendix.
330   $aThis book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm. In the book, the author critically examines technologies such as genetic engineering, neural implants, pharmacologic enhancement, and cryonic suspension from transhumanist and bioconservative positions, focusing primarily on moral issues and what it means to be a human in a setting where technological interventions sometimes impact strongly on our humanity. 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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