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1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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TechKnow |
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TechKnow.
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Enhancing Me: The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement; Contents; Introduction; I: Longer Than Life; II: Brighter Than Life; III: BETTER THAN LIFE; IV: FASTER THAN LIFE; V: HYPE OR HOPE?; Index. |
| Summary |
Science is developing more and more potential for human beings to enhance themselves. The pace of change is rapid, and some people are already warning that we are heading for a post-human future populated by ever-lasting, self-sustaining intelligence systems into which the contents of a human mind have been poured ... Is this true? In Enhancing Me, Pete Moore examines the ways in which technology can change our bodies, our brains, our emotions, and how long we live. He talks to people who have actually been 'enhanced' to find out what it's like and how beneficial it is; and to the experts to fi. |
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Medical technology.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Forecasting.
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Genetic engineering.
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotechnology -- ethics. |
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Human Body. |
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Genetic Engineering -- ethics. |
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00832760
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Genetic engineering. (OCoLC)fst00940027
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Medical technology. (OCoLC)fst01014742
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01014766
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Medizinische Ethik
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Transhumanismus
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moore, Pete, 1962- Enhancing me. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, ©2008 9780470724095 (DLC) 2008295384 (OCoLC)182736487 |
| ISBN |
9780470699997 (electronic bk.) |
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047069999X (electronic bk.) |
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1282342657 |
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9781282342651 |
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0470724099 (paper) |
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9780470724095 (paper) |
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9786612342653 |
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AU@ 000048785701 |
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AU@ 000051546949 |
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CDX 11287520 |
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DEBBG BV043148112 |
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DEBBG BV044140091 |
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DEBSZ 421852461 |
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GBVCP 803326149 |
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NZ1 13340421 |
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AU@ 000066758306 |
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