Future Humans

Rapid advances in the life-sciences are giving rise to promising new medical treatments, and they are also generating intense philosophical debates.  Are there ethical limits on the uses to which genetic engineering should be put?  The new technologies promise to make human enhancement a real possibility. What sorts of enhancement are desirable or ethical?  Should we be aiming to extend our lifespans? If so, by how much? Should drugs which enhance our performance – athletically or intellectually – be banned or encouraged?

Publications

Frith, L.   “The point of no return – up to what point should we be allowed to withdraw consent to the storage and use of embryos and gametes” Bioethics, forthcoming

Frith, L. “The Limits of Evidence: Evidence based policy and the removal of gamete donor anonymity in the UK”, Monash Bioethics Review, 2015

Frith, L. “They can’t have my embryo: the ethics of conditional embryo donation”, Bioethics, 2013

Frith, L. “Contacting gamete donors to facilitate diagnostic genetic testing for the donor-conceived child – what are the rights and obligations of gamete donors in these cases?” Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (2020):220-222.

Frith, L & Blyth, E. “The point of no return – up to what point should we be allowed to withdraw consent to the storage and use of embryos and gametes?” Bioethics 33/6 (2019): 637-643.

Hauskeller, M.  Mythologies of Transhumanism, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 

Hauskeller, M. Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, Durham: Acumen, 2013.

Hauskeller, M “Human Enhancement and the Giftedness of Life”, in: Philosophical Papers 40/1 (2011): 55-79.

Hauskeller, M. & Coyne, L. (eds.), Moral Enhancement, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018.

Hauskeller, M “Is It Desirable to Be Able to Do the Undesirable?”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26/3, 2017

Hauskeller, M. “Forever Young? Life Extension and the Ageing Mind”, in: Ethical Perspectives 18/3 2011

Hauskeller, M. Sex and the Posthuman Condition, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014.

McKenna, R. “Irrelevant Cultural Influences on Belief”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming

Schramme, T. Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, (ed. with Steve Edwards), Springer 2017 

Schramme, T.  “Preventing assistance to die: Assessing indirect paternalism regarding voluntary active eu­thanasia and assisted suicide”, in: Michael Cholbi & Jukka Varelius (eds.), New Direc­tions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer, 2015

Schramme, T. ‘I hope that I get old before I die’: ageing and the concept of disease, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34, 2013

Schramme, T. “Should We Prevent Voluntary Mutilation and Extreme Body Modification?” Bioethics 22 (1), 2008