Inquiring into Human Enhancement

Sylvie Allouche, Université Catholique de Lyon, France.Simone Bateman, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France.Christopher Coenen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France.T. Selim Eskiizmirlile, University Paris Diderot, France.Jean Gayon, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.Jérôme Goffette, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France.Patrick Laure, University of Lorraine, France.Eric De Léséleuc, National Higher Institute for Special Needs Education at Suresnes, France.Anne Marcellini, Lausanne University, Switzerland.Michela Marzano, Université Paris Descartes, France.Vincent Menuz, University of Zürich, Switzerland.Ruud ter Meulen, University of Bristol, UK.Jean-Noël Missa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.Pascal Nouvel, University Paul Valéry of Montpellier, France.Brian Stableford, Independent Researcher.Myriam Winance, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France.

• Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela MarzanoPART I: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: WHAT DO WE MEAN?1. The Concept and Practices of Human Enhancement: What is at Stake?; Simone Bateman and Jean Gayon2. Enhancement: Why We Should Distinguish Anthropotechnics from Medicine; Jérôme Goffette3. Why Do We Wish to Be Enhanced; Vincent Menuz4. The Moral Ambiguity of Human Enhancement; Ruud ter MeulenPART II: LEARNING FROM ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES5. A Scale and a Paradigmatic Framework for Human Enhancement; Pascal Nouvel6. From Repair to Enhancement: The Use of Technical Aids in the Field of Disability; Myriam Winance, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Léséleuc7. BMI (Brain-Machine Interface) as a Tool for Understanding Human-Machine Cooperation; Selim Eskiizmirliler and Jérôme Goffette8. Doping Behavior as an Indicator of Performance Pressure; Patrick Laure and Sylvie AllouchePART III: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM ART AND FICTION9. The Earth as Our Footstool: Visions of Human Enhancement in 19th and 20th Century Britain; Christopher Coenen10. Transcendental Medicine Versus the ' 'Prisonhouse of the Flesh ' ': Enhancement in R.L. Stevenson ' 's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay11. Biotechnology and the Future of Sport: A Scenario; Jean-Noël Missa12. Adaptation and Emortality: Human Enhancement in ' 'Tales of the Biotech Revolution ' '; Brian Stableford