Bioethics and Transhumanism.
Transhumanism is a "technoprogressive" socio-political and intellectual movement that advocates for the use of technology in order to transform the human organism radically, with the ultimate goal of becoming "posthuman." To this end, transhumanists focus on and encourage the use of new and emerging...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 237 - 261 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2017
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