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| Title |
Cochlear Implantation, Enhancements, Transhumanism and Posthumanism: Some Human Questions
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| Published in |
Science and Engineering Ethics, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11948-015-9640-6 |
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| Authors |
Joseph Lee |
| Abstract |
Biomedical engineering technologies such as brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetics are advancements which assist human beings in varied ways. There are exciting yet speculative visions of how the neurosciences and bioengineering may influence human nature. However, these could be preparing a possible pathway towards an enhanced and even posthuman future. This article seeks to investigate several ethical themes and wider questions of enhancement, transhumanism and posthumanism. Four themes of interest are: autonomy, identity, futures, and community. Three larger questions can be asked: will everyone be enhanced? Will we be "human" if we are not, one day, transhuman? Should we be enhanced or not? The article proceeds by concentrating on a widespread and sometimes controversial application: the cochlear implant, an auditory prosthesis implanted into Deaf patients. Cochlear implantation and its reception in both the deaf and hearing communities have a distinctive moral discourse, which can offer surprising insights. The paper begins with several points about the enhancement of human beings, transhumanism's reach beyond the human, and posthuman aspirations. Next it focuses on cochlear implants on two sides. Firstly, a shorter consideration of what technologies may do to humans in a transhumanist world. Secondly, a deeper analysis of cochlear implantation's unique socio-political movement, its ethical explanations and cultural experiences linked with pediatric cochlear implantation-and how those wary of being thrust towards posthumanism could marshal such ideas by analogy. As transhumanism approaches, the issues and questions merit continuing intense analysis. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 112 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 12% |
| Researcher | 11 | 10% |
| Professor | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 27 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 16 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 9 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 6% |
| Philosophy | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 34 | 30% |
| Unknown | 32 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2016.
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