[go: up one dir, main page]
More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/
 Inter-Research > ESEP > v13 > n1 > p15-21  
ESEP
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
via Mailchimp

ESEP 13:15-21 (2013)  -  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00131

AS I SEE IT
Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement

Arthur Saniotis*

School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
*Email:

ABSTRACT: Since prehistory, the genus Homo has used technologies in order to enhance fitness. With the growth of bio-technologies, western medicine is improving the structure and function of the human body beyond its natural state. Bio-technological improvements in the next 50 yr promise further increases in human life span and performance. Notwithstanding the ethical argument encouraging transhumanist technologies, present human societies have yet to come to grips with the possibility of such a future world. This article will discuss future nootropic enhancers and human-animal gene splicing as possible enhancement technologies in relation to their ethical and social implications.


KEY WORDS: Evolution · Neural plasticity · Nootropics · Cosmetic neurology · Chimera · Post‑human


Full text in pdf format
Cite this article as: Saniotis A (2013) Remaking Homo: ethical issues on future human enhancement. Ethics Sci Environ Polit 13:15-21. https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00131

Export citation
Share:    Facebook - - linkedIn

Cited by
Published in ESEP Vol. 13, No. 1. Online publication date: March 08, 2013
Print ISSN: 1863-5415; Online ISSN: 1611-8014
Copyright © 2013 Inter-Research.
 Previous article Next article