Tags: enhancement
Blog Posts (32)
Oct 18, 2011
Genetic Testing for the Injury Prone
Professional soccer teams (football to the rest of the world) are using high-powered science to give them a competitive edge. The most recent venture into the world of professional sport and science involves an “unnamed Premier League club” [that] has commissioned Yale University scientists to genetically test its players and attempt to identify genetic indicators that can serve as a warning sign to whether an athlete is prone to injury.” According to Bleacher Report, scientists claim that there are more than 100 genetic factors linked to being prone to injury.…
Jun 09, 2011
How Young Is Too Young for Plastic Surgery?
A British mother who is a self-proclaimed “plastic surgery addict” has given her pre-teen daughter a “voucher” for future breast augmentation.…
Jun 02, 2011
Stem Cells and Baseball
When it came to light that New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon had received autologous stem cell therapy from a clinic in the Dominican Republic, an important question came before Major League Baseball: should stem cell “therapies” be banned from big league ball?…
Aug 04, 2010
Putting Adderall in the Water--Irrestistible!
I have, from time to time, jokingly accused my neuro-enhancement colleagues about wanting to put cognition improving drugs in the water.…
Apr 15, 2010
AJOB's April Issue is Now Online!
Just in time to coincide with National Healthcare Decisions Day, AJOB’s April issue is now online featuring an editorial and a target article discussing advance directives and patient decision-making.…
Feb 09, 2010
Do You Know Why Glenn McGee Wants to Live Forever?
Well, your first answer chould be, “Doesn’t everyone?”
But if the actual answer is, “I haven’t a clue”, then click on this link.…
Nov 23, 2009
One Generation Burned Their Bras. Will Another Implant Theirs?
Victoria’s Secret beware. There’s a new game in town, says Fox News: the implantable, non-removable “Cup & Up” device. The bra that never sleeps–or comes off.…
Oct 08, 2009
"Academic Doping" is Just Plain Dumb (as Something to Fear)
The first media story I read about Dr. Vincent Cakic’s Journal of Medical Ethics paper about the ethical concerns about academic doping I was able to shrug off as just one more enhancement story.…
Sep 11, 2009
Let Semenya Run
Some people are simply just born to run, to compete, and to excel in athletics. We never quite understand why–and until recent years when Olympic-level athletics has become in large part overrun by science and technology and highly sophisticated physical training and dietetics, we did not understand why the Michael Phelps of the world could perform almost super-human feats.…
May 20, 2009
Have We Become Too Dependent On Our Medicine Cabinet?
Christian Science Monitor is asking an important question: “Have we become too dependent on our medicine cabinet?” Medical ethicists, physicians, and even patients and their advocates who are growing increasingly concerned about the reliance that Americans place upon their pharmaceuticals to make them well.…
Published Articles (5)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 11 - Nov 2010
Review of Richard Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement Tony Miksanek
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 1 - Jan 2011
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ?'Doctor, Would You Prescribe a Pill to Help Me ? ?' A National Survey of Physicians on Using Medicine for Human Enhancement? Timothy Hotze
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 1 - Jan 2011
?Doctor, Would You Prescribe a Pill to Help Me ? ?? A National Survey of Physicians on Using Medicine for Human Enhancement Timothy Hotze
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 8 Issue 2 - Jan 2008
Performance-Enhancing Technologies and Moral Responsibility in the Military Jessica Wolfendale
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 5 Issue 3 - May 2005
Response to Commentators on ?What's Wrong With Enhancement?? Frances M. Kamm
News (5)
Apr 12, 2012
Amputees Just Looking for a Fight (New York Times)
Just 26 and with a creditable — if unexceptional — pedigree in amateur wrestling, Newell is not so fearsome that professional fighters should cower. Yet the list of fighters who have canceled or rejected bouts with him is about two dozen long, and the reason is clear: it can be difficult to persuade able-bodied athletes to fight a man with one hand.
Sport needs to re-think both disability and enhancement.
Mar 10, 2012
Why It's OK to Let Apps Make You a Better Person (The Atlantic)
Evan Selinger considers the ramifications of using apps to improve our habits. And also whether willpower as we normally think about it even exists. #bioethics #neuroethics #brain #philosophy
Mar 01, 2012
Super-human brain technology sparks ethics debate (Chicago Tribune)
A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry. #bioethics
Feb 24, 2012
Could babies born today live to 150? (CBS News)
In 1850, the average human lifespan was 43 years. Now it’s closer to 80. How high could it go? And what effect will the ever-increasing lifespan of humans have upon society? #bioethics #aging
Feb 21, 2012
Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives (Reason)
Opposition to the technologies that make life longer, healthier, and happier creates strange bedfellows argues Ronald Bailey. #bioethics #politics