What Does it Mean to be Human? Life, Death, Personhood and the Transhumanist Movement (Anticipation Science)
暫譯: 成為人類意味著什麼？生命、死亡、人格與超人類主義運動（預見科學）

D. John Doyle

What Does it Mean to be Human? Life, Death, Personhood and the Transhumanist Movement (Anticipation Science)
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2018-09-18
  • 售價: $5,230
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,969
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 213
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 3319949497
  • ISBN-13: 9783319949499

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This 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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本書對於人類增強及其相關的醫療發展所涉及的哲學和道德問題進行了深入的探討，這些發展目前正迅速從實驗室轉向臨床領域。作者批判性地檢視了基因工程、神經植入、藥物增強和冷凍保存等技術，從超人類主義和生物保守主義的立場出發，主要聚焦於道德問題以及在技術干預有時強烈影響我們人性的情境下，成為人類的意義。

作者還引入了死亡是一個過程而非事件的概念，並指出當前在腦死亡的判定上存在的哲學和臨床限制，這是器官移植的前提。對於死亡的具體定義的討論，隨後被應用於探討與冷凍保存運動相關的哲學和臨床問題。

本書由一位醫生/科學家撰寫，並大量參考了經過同行評審的醫學和科學文獻，旨在針對高級學生和學術界，但任何願意進行一些附加閱讀的聰明讀者都應該能夠理解。書中並不假設讀者具備道德哲學的先前知識，因為各種道德哲學的關鍵方法在書的早期部分已經概述。

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