A cross-disciplinary approach is offered to consider the challenge of emerging technologies designed to enhance human bodies and minds.

Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now.

The chapters in this volume treat not only those aspects that most immediately come to mind when one thinks of ‘human enhancement’, such as genetic engineering, cloning, artificial implants and artificial intelligence etc.

In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement—improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology.

The Ethics of Human Enhancement examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning.

In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics.

Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject.

... human enhancement . What sense is there in concerning oneself hypothetically with the ethical aspects of an extreme lengthening of the human life - span , or with self - replicating nanorobots ? 65 Most sci- entists are of the opinion ...

In addition, the well-balanced structure of the volume allows both favourable and critical views to be voiced. Moreover, the work has a crystal clear structure. As a consequence, the book is accessible to a broad academic audience.