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Medicine and the Question of the Future

Author(s): Iveta Tasheva
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Theoretical Linguistics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Syntax, Pragmatics, Vocational Education, Adult Education, State/Government and Education, Philology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: medicine; transhumanism; immortality; gene enhancement

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses one of the many applications of medical translation, namely its ability to translate knowledge. In this sense, it is directly related to the theme of the future and development of transhumanism. This particular article discusses some of the mainstays of transhumanism that affect medicine - the idea of genetic enhancement and the technologically determined evolution of individuals, futurological utopias and anti-utopias, and debates surrounding immortality.

  • Issue Year: 64/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67 - 72
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian