| A transhumanist fault line around disability: morphological freedom and the obligation to enhance. | |
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PMID: 21076073 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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The transhumanist literature encompasses diverse non-novel positions on questions of disability and obligation reflecting long-running political philosophical debates on freedom and value choice, complicated by the difficulty of projecting values to enhanced beings. These older questions take on a more concrete form given transhumanist uses of biotechnologies. This paper will contrast the views of Hughes and Sandberg on the obligations persons with "disabilities" have to enhance and suggest a new model. The paper will finish by introducing a distinction between the responsibility society has in respect of the presence of impairments and the responsibility society has not to abandon disadvantaged members, concluding that questions of freedom and responsibility have renewed political importance in the context of enhancement technologies. |
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Heather G Bradshaw; Ruud ter Meulen |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-11-12 |
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Title: The Journal of medicine and philosophy Volume: 35 ISSN: 1744-5019 ISO Abbreviation: J Med Philos Publication Date: 2010 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-12-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7610512 Medline TA: J Med Philos Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 670-84 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Cotham Hill, Bristol, UK. heather.bradshaw@bristol.ac.uk |
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