Julian Savulescu - Enhancing Human Capacities

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This edition first published 2011

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Enhancing human capacities/edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane.

p.; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9581-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Medical innovationsMoral and ethical aspects. 2. Medical innovationsGovernment policy. 3. Medical innovationsSocial aspects. I. Savulescu, Julian. II. Meulen, R. H. J. ter (Ruud H. J.), 1952 III. Kahane, Guy, 1971-

[DNLM: 1. Biomedical Enhancementethics. 2. Genetic Engineeringethics. 3. Health Policy. W 82]

RA418.5.M4E536 2011

610.28dc22

2010034211

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Notes on Contributors

Gustaf Arrhenius is Torgny Segerstedt Pro Futura Fellow and Docent (Reader) in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study since 2006. He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, and at the Centre de Recherche Sens, Ethique, Socit, CNRS, Paris.

Gaia Barazzetti is a Teaching Fellow in Ethics at the College of Humanities of the Ecole Polytechnique Fderal de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Faculty of Philosophy of San Raffaele University in Milan.

Ron Berghmans is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Maastricht University.

Ineke Bolt is Senior Lecturer at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University and at the Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine of Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam.

John Bond is Professor of Social Gerontology and Health Services Research, Ageing, Health and Society Research Group, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University.

Nick Bostrom is Professor and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy and James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford.

Bengt Brlde is Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory ofScience, University ofGothenburg, and Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Department of Nursing, Health, and Culture, University West, Sweden.

Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Investigator, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford.

Steve Clarke is a Research Fellow, Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Christopher Coenen is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Thomas Douglas is a D.Phil. student in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Bennett Foddy is Deputy Director of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Henry T. Greely is Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford law School, Stanford.

Hidde J. Haisma is Professor of Therapeutic Gene Modulation and Chair of the Department of pharmaceutical Gene Modulation, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen.

Sren Holm is Professor of Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, and Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo.

Tony Hope is Professor of Medical Ethics at The Ethox Centre; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist; and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford.

Steven Horrobin is a Researcher at the College of Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Charlotte R. Housden is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Kenneth Howse is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford.

Niklas Juth is a Senior Lecturer at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Department ofLearning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University.

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Laurens Landeweerd is Researcher at the Department of Health Ethics and Society, Maastricht University.

S. Matthew Liao is Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics with an affiliation in the Department of Philosophy, New York University.

Sigmund Loland is Professor of Sport Philosophy in the Department of Social and Cultural Studies, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo.

Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, History and Law in Healthcare, School of Health and Human Sciences, Swansea University.

Andrea Malizia is a Consultant Senior Lecturer in the Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol.

Ruud ter Meulen is Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol.