Citizen Cyborg

Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future

By: James Hughes

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Hardcover | 18 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human - "posthuman" or "transhuman" - the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Tools for a Better You
Better Living Through Science and Democracy	p. 3
Controlling the Body	p. 11
Living Longer	p. 23
Getting Smarter	p. 33
Being Happier	p. 43
The New Biopolitical Landscape
From Future Shock to Biopolitics	p. 55
Cyborg Citizenship	p. 75
Defenders of Natural Law	p. 107
Left-Wing BioLuddites	p. 125
Upwingers, Extropians and Transhumanists	p. 155
Freedom and Equality Among the Cyborgs
Democratic Transhumanism	p. 187
Transhuman Democracy	p. 221
Defending the Future	p. 241
A Sexy, High-Tech Vision for a Radically Democratic Future	p. 259
Further Resources	p. 267
Index	p. 285
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