Human enhancement: Genetic engineering and evolution. [PDF]
Evol Med Public Health, 2019 AbstractGenetic engineering opens new possibilities for biomedical enhancement requiring ethical, societal and practical considerations to evaluate its implications for human biology, human evolution and our natural environment. In this Commentary, we consider human enhancement, and in particular, we explore genetic enhancement in an evolutionary ...
Almeida M, Diogo R.
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Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond. [PDF]
Integr Psychol Behav Sci, 2023 Technology enables humans not only to adapt their environment to their needs but also to modify themselves. Means of Human Enhancement — embodied technologies to improve the human body’s capabilities or to create a new one — are the designated means of ...
Döbler NA, Carbon CC.
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On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism. [PDF]
Sci Eng Ethics, 2022 The human enhancement debate has over the last few decades been concerned with ethical issues in methods for improving the physical, cognitive, or emotive states of individual people, and of the human species as a whole.
Lyreskog DM, McKeown A.
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Human enhancement and personality: A new approach towards investigating their relationship. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 With the rise of new technologies, also human enhancement is widely discussed. Especially the philosophical movement “transhumanism” urges for creating “better humans” by applying different enhancement methods, namely: pharmacological, current-based, and
Grinschgl S, Tawakol Z, Neubauer AC.
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Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: a human enhancement story. [PDF]
Transl Med Commun, 2021 Background Vaccination is an essential strategy for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides its significance as a public health measure, vaccination is a sophisticated example of modern biotechnology.
Döbler NA, Carbon CC.
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Pharmacological Human Enhancement: An Overview of the Looming Bioethical and Regulatory Challenges. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2020 Cognitive enhancement, a rather broad-ranging principle, can be achieved in various ways: healthy eating and consistent physical exercise can lead to long-term improvements in many cognitive domains; commonplace stimulants such as caffeine, on the other ...
Ricci G.
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Human enhancement through the lens of experimental and speculative neurotechnologies. [PDF]
Hum Behav Emerg Technol, 2019 Human enhancement deals with improving on and overcoming limitations of the human body and mind. Pharmaceutical compounds that alter consciousness and cognitive performance have been used and discussed for a long time.
Teunisse W, Youssef S, Schmidt M.
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Pioneering neurohackers: between egocentric human enhancement and altruistic sacrifice [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 The growing field of neurotechnology (NT) is becoming more and more accessible in terms of reduced costs, increasing availability and reliability of materials, and ways to implant devices.
Günter Seyfried +2 more
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Limits to human enhancement: nature, disease, therapy or betterment? [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2017 New technologies facilitate the enhancement of a wide range of human dispositions, capacities, or abilities. While it is argued that we need to set limits to human enhancement, it is unclear where we should find resources to set such limits.
Hofmann B.
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Rethinking Human Enhancement as Collective Welfarism. [PDF]
Nat Hum Behav, 2019 Bavelier D +6 more
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