Can The Public Accept Human Enhancement?
Human enhancement technologies are opening up many exciting new possibilities. But they are also bringing up questions about what it means to be human, and what’s right or wrong for our individual and collective well-being. These new technological applications are geared towards restoring or improving mental and physical abilities for medical purposes.
However, those new applications can be turned around and used with a different goal in mind: enhancing performance. Think of athletes! However, using this technology is will be an individual choice; it nevertheless has an impact on society as a whole. An international group of researchers led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and Oxford University has been exploring the ethical issues arising from such experiments.…
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