Journal article
Engineering 'Posthumans': To Be or Not to Be?
- Karamanou M Institute of History of Medicine and Public Health, Medical School, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Papaioannou TG Biomedical Engineering Unit, First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: thepap@med.uoa.gr.
- Soulis D Biomedical Engineering Unit, First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- Tousoulis D Biomedical Engineering Unit, First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 2017-05-20
Published in:
- Trends in biotechnology. - 2017
English
Emerging technological innovations have transformed some science fiction ideas into reality, promising radical changes in human nature. New philosophical and intellectual movements such as 'transhumanism' and 'posthumanism' try to foretell and even direct the future of our existence while dealing with new and complex ethical, social, political issues and dilemmas.
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- English
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- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.04.011
- PMID 28522218
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/281545
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