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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyFrom “Enhancement Medicine” to “Anthropotechnology”

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy: From “Enhancement Medicine” to... [Techniques developed within medical practice seem to be more and more easily exported into contexts where the medical, which is to say therapeutic, aim is disputable or even explicitly denied. This situation has progressively led to a broadening of the scope of medicine in order to include these extended applications, and we now regularly encounter the term “enhancement medicine.” My purpose here is to dispute the legitimacy of this expression and suggest its replacement by the term “anthropotechnology.” In order to do so, I will mainly rely on a discussion of concepts, emphasising the difficulties raised by the use of the disputed expression. At some key-stages of my argument however, I also rely on the methodology developed during my PhD (Allouche 2012), whose main strategy was to make use of science fiction to build philosophical arguments.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyFrom “Enhancement Medicine” to “Anthropotechnology”

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 120)
Editors: Meacham, Darian
Allouche, Sylvie
Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy — May 23, 2015
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
ISBN
978-94-017-9869-3
Pages
295 –315
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9_17
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Abstract

[Techniques developed within medical practice seem to be more and more easily exported into contexts where the medical, which is to say therapeutic, aim is disputable or even explicitly denied. This situation has progressively led to a broadening of the scope of medicine in order to include these extended applications, and we now regularly encounter the term “enhancement medicine.” My purpose here is to dispute the legitimacy of this expression and suggest its replacement by the term “anthropotechnology.” In order to do so, I will mainly rely on a discussion of concepts, emphasising the difficulties raised by the use of the disputed expression. At some key-stages of my argument however, I also rely on the methodology developed during my PhD (Allouche 2012), whose main strategy was to make use of science fiction to build philosophical arguments.]

Published: May 23, 2015

Keywords: Science Fiction; Hydroelectric Plant; Medical Technique; Human Enhancement; Deaf Community

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