Engineering 'Posthumans': To Be or Not to Be?

Karamanou M; Papaioannou TG; Soulis D; Tousoulis D

doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.04.011

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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

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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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