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Impact of robotics and human enhancement on occupation: what does it mean for rehabilitation?

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2020
Purpose: People with disabilities face participation challenges in all occupations. Scientific and technological advancements impact the occupational landscape of humans.
Manel Djebrouni, G. Wolbring
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Human Enhancement and Enhancing Human Capacities

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2012
Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom (eds), Human Enhancement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 423. £21.00 (pb).
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Why Human Enhancement is Necessary for Successful Human Deep-space Missions

The New Bioethics, 2019
While humans have made enormous progress in the exploration and exploitation of Earth, exploration of outer space remains beyond current human capabilities.
K. Szocik, Martin Braddock
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Human enhancement in space missions: From moral controversy to technological duty

Technology and Society, 2019
Human space missions form an area of human life in which methods of more or less radical human enhancement should be taken into account. The space environment offers strong reasons for enhancement because of its hazardous nature.
K. Szocik, T. Wójtowicz
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The Ethics of Human Enhancement

Human Performance Optimization, 2019
This chapter raises some ethical considerations and highlights the debate regarding the burgeoning field of human enhancement (HE) and performance optimization.
J. Laurence, Joshua A. Carlisle
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Research Viewpoint: Human Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence for Space Missions

Astropolitics : The International Journal of Space Politics and Policy, 2019
This paper discusses key issues concerning robotic space missions and human enhancement for purposes of missions to deep space. Effective robotic exploration, especially to deep space, optimally requires advanced artificial intelligence not currently ...
K. Szocik, Koji Tachibana
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Wearable Robots for Human Underwater Movement Ability Enhancement: A Survey

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022
Underwater robot technology has shown impressive results in applications such as underwater resource detection. For underwater applications that require extremely high flexibility, robots cannot replace skills that require human dexterity yet, and thus ...
H. Xia, Muhammad Alamgeer Khan, Zhijun Li, Mengchu Zhou   +3 more
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Human enhancement and perfection

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
Both, bioconservatives and bioliberals, should seek a discussion about ideas of human perfection, making explicit their underlying assumptions about what makes for a good human life. This is relevant, because these basic, and often implicit ideas, inform and influence judgements and choices about human enhancement interventions.
Roduit Johann A. R., Baumann Holger, Heilinger Jan-Christoph   +2 more
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Theosis and Human Enhancement

Theology and Science, 2018
Recent theological work on the meaning of theosis or deification has largely ignored today’s cultural context in which ordinary Christians are expected to put theosis into practice.
R. Cole-Turner
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Humanity Enhanced

2013
An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices. Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars.
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