Human Enhancement Bibliography Year 2016 Description A annotated bibliography looking at ethical issues and societal implications raised by human enhancement, including cybernetic and genetic technologies, cognitive enhancement, moral enhancement, and what it means to be human. Types of materials included in the bibliography include policy documents, reports web sites, films, books and journal articles. Body Policies and Guidelines Academy of Medical Sciences (Great Britain), British Academy., Royal Academy of Engineering (Great Britain), and Royal Society (Great Britain). 2012. Human enhancement and the future of work. London: The Academy of Medical Sciences. A report from a joint Academies meeting that looked at how human enhancement and related technological advancements could change how people work over the next decade. President’s Council on Bioethics (United States). 2003. Beyond therapy: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness. A report that explores the profound ethical and social consequences of today’s biotechnological revolution and looks at how to responsibly use them in an age where human enhancement is possible. President’s Council on Bioethics (United States). 2015. Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics and Society. Volume 2 Chapter two of this report provides a good overview of the cognitive enhancement technologies and ethical concerns raised, and offers some recommendations for policies that should be put in place to ensure the ethical development of these technologies. Websites Kapustil, Cristina J. and Mark S. Frankel. 2016. Hastings Center Bioethics Briefings: Enhancing Humans Part of the Bioethics Briefings for Journalists, Policymakers and Educators, this site offers an overview of the history of human enhancement, technologies that enable enhancement, an overview of ethical issues including safety, coercion, and fairness, and a collection of further resources on human enhancement. Another policy briefing also looks at enhancement technologies and sports. Masci, David. 2016. Human Enhancement: The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Striving for Perfection. Pew Research Center. Provides an accessible overview of recent developments in human enhancement, as well as discussion about ethical issues raised by these technologies. Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. This site includes overview of enhancement technologies and ethics of enhancement;, and recent publications, lectures and talks by members of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics on this topic. Films Brashear, Regan Pretlow, et al. 2013. Fixed : the science/fiction of human enhancement. Blooming Grove, New York: New Day Films. two- dimensional moving image. A documentary film looking at technologies being used to treat and enhance the human body, from bionic limbs, to prenatal screening, and discusses some of the ethical and social implications of these technologies. Books and Reports Agar, Nicholas. 2004. Liberal eugenics: in defense of human enhancement . Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Argues that parents should be allowed to enhance their children. Agar, Nicholas. 2014. Truly human enhancement. A philosophical defense of limits, Basic Bioethics. Cambridge: The MIT Press. The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement -- improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. He argues against radical human enhancement, or improvements that greatly exceed current human capabilities. Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F. 2011. The politics of emerging strategic technologies: implications for geopolitics, human enhancement, and human destiny. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: in association with St Anthony's College. The author examines key trends in emerging strategic technologies and the implications for geopolitics and human dignity. Al-Rodhan argues that future evolution into transhumans is inevitable. In preparation, the global community is urged to establish strict moral and legal guidelines balancing innovation with the guarantee of dignity for all. Bostrom, Nick and Julian Savulescu. 2008. Human Enhancement. New York: Oxford University Press. An excellent collection of eighteen essays on the human enhancement debate that discusses what enhancement is, what it means to be human, how enhancement might change human nature, and provides critiques of recent technologies, such as genetic engineering, prenatal diagnosis, and other biomedical interventions that are likely to be used to enhance humans in the future. Bateman, Simone, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, and Michela Marzano. 2015. Inquiring into human enhancement: interdisciplinary and international perspectives, Health, technology and society. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails. Buchanan, Allen. 2011. Beyond Humanity? The ethics of biomedical enhancement. New York: Oxford University Press. Human enhancement raises enduring questions about what it is to be human, about individuality, about our relationship to nature, and about what sort of society we should strive to have. The author argues that the debate about enhancement needs to be informed by a proper understanding of evolutionary biology, which has discredited the simplistic conceptions of human nature used by many opponents of enhancement. He argues that there are powerful reasons for us to embark on the enhancement enterprise, and no objections to enhancement that are sufficient to outweigh them. Clarke, Steve. Julian Savulescu, Tony Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal. 2016. The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the debate. New York: Oxford University Press. This collection of essays from leading scholars in the field of human enhancement discusses new developments in the area of human enhancement, and the evolving debate around these technologies. Eilers, Miriam, Katrin Grüber, and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter. 2014. "The human enhancement debate and disability: new bodies for a better life." In. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan. Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. European Parliament. 2009. Human Enhancement Study. This study done in 2009 for the European Parliament defines human enhancement and enhancement technologies and then looks at the social impact and ethical issues inherent in the development and use of enhancement technologies in the following cases: designer babies, use of Ritalin to improve school/work performance and deep brain stimulation. Harris, John. 2016. How to be Good: The possibility of moral enhancement. New York: Oxford University Press. There are many proposed methodologies or technologies for moral enhancement. Some of them are ancient and/or familiar: we may attempt moral enhancement by setting a good example, by good parenting, by education or training, or we can use medical, biological, or other scientific means; we can search for and deploy chemicals, or biological or molecular agents, which we believe will change people for the better; and we can modify the environment to make bad outcomes of all sorts less likely. We can experiment with political and social systems, institutions, and arrangements designed to make the world a better place or people better people. The question whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible is the subject of this book. Gasson, Mark N., Eleni Kosta, and Diana Bowman. 2012. Human ICT implants: technical, legal and ethical considerations. In Information technology and law series. Hague, The Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Press. Information and communication technology (ICT) has been implanted in the human body for years and these technologies (such as cochlear implants) for therapeutic proposes. Now, low-tech human ICT implants have been increasingly used for non- therapeutic purposes, such as VIP nightclub entry, automated payments, and controlling secure access. While self-experimenters push the boundaries and medical technologies become used for non-medical applications, this collection of essays explore the latest technological developments and the legal, social and ethical implications of the use and further application of these technologies. Jotterand, Fabrice and Veljiko Dubljevic. Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and policy implications in international perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press The editors of this book take an international view of the field of cognitive enhancement by examining the conceptual implications stemming from competing points of view about the nature and goals of enhancement, the ethical, social, and legal implications of neuroenhancement from an international and global perspective including contributions from