Socio-Epistemological Aspects of Enhancement
Socio-Epistemological Aspects of Enhancement

Author(s): Veselin Mitrović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: human enhancement; transhumanism; bioconservatism; genetic; socio-epistemology; biotechnology; social power; ethic
Summary/Abstract: Human Enhancement could be described as the use of medicine, surgery and other kinds of medical technology, not just to cure or control illness, but rather to enhance or improve human capacities and characteristics (Elliott 1998). One of the well-known and most contradictory definitions of Enhancement is that it represents a directed use of biotechnical power through direct intervention in order to alter the 'norma!' functions of the human body and psyche - not the disease processes - and to increase or improve the innate capacities and performances of the body (The President's Council on Bioethics 2003).

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