Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

by Eve Herold
Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

by Eve Herold

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Overview

Never before in the history of medicine has mankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of today.

Eve Herold's Beyond Human examines the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology, cellular and gene therapies, and robotics. These technologies will dramatically transform our lives and allow us to live for hundreds of years. Yet, with these blessings come complicated practical and ethical issues, some of which we can predict, but many we cannot.

Beyond Human taps the minds of doctors, scientists, and engineers engaged in developing a host of new technologies while telling the stories of some of the patients courageously testing the radical new treatments about to come into the market.

Beyond Human asks the difficult questions of the scientists and bioethicists who seek to ensure that as our bodies and brains become ever more artificial, we hold onto our humanity. In this new world, will everyone have access to technological miracles, or will we end up living in a world of radical disparities? How will society accommodate life spans that extend into hundreds of years? Will we and our descendants be able to bring about the dream of a future liberated by technology, or will we end up merely serving the machines and devices that keep us healthy, smart, young, and alive?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780594920939
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 08/16/2016
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

EVE HEROLD is a science writer specializing in issues at the intersection of science and society. She has written and spoken extensively about stem cell research and regenerative medicine and the social and bioethical aspects of leading-edge medicine. She is the past director of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at the American Psychiatric Association and has served as Director of Public Policy Research and Education for the Genetics Policy Institute.

Table of Contents

1 When Humans and Technology Merge 1

2 "Better Than the Heart I Was Born With" 31

3 The Race to Beat Kidney, Lung, and Liver Disease 55

4 Got Diabetes? There's an App for That 85

5 Jump-Started by the U.S. Military 96

6 Building a Better Brain 124

7 The Ageless Society 165

8 The Age of Social Robots 208

9 Just Don't Call It Transhumanism 238

Notes 265

Index 279

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