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To Live a Good or a Better Life : Enhancement in the Modern Medicine

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2015

Abstract

Modern medicine is advanced so far, that it is in mass way able not only to cure but also to enhance (enhancement) life of the human being. This realm of medicine too asks whether we are allowed to do what we can do.

It includes a broad array of various interventions starting with a morning cup of tea or coffee through application of sundry psychopharmacological drugs or doping means as well as aesthetical surgery and prosthetic tweaking regarding also IT devices or possibly also changes of the genetic outfit. There is an option to reshape the human with her/his natural design.

The mentioned possibilities arouse fantasy resembling sci-fi dreaming and also ethical pondering on limits of such conduct. Contributions with analyses of this issue appear in the monograph "Good or better life? Human Enhancement" that is the first treaty of such kind in the Czech language.