Posthumanism : the future of homo sapiens / Michael Bess and Diana Walsh Pasulka, editors.
Series: Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks | Gale eBooksPublisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapContent type:- text
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- 9780028664484
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- BD450 .H8653 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. How to think about science, technology, and the future? -- pt. 2. Science and technology -- pt. 3. Religious responses and new religiosities -- pt. 4. Moral debates -- pt. 5. Societal implications.
This book provides an introduction to scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings. It covers the fundamental aspects of how bioenhancement will become feasible, what shape these technologies are likely to take, and what sorts of concrete consequences they will have for peoples lives.