Building Better Humans?

According to some, we have the option to build better humans. We have the technology, we have the laws, and we have the support of many. But, we have not decided what, exactly, constitutes a "better" human. Some would say we should build better athletes, while others believe we should show a preference for more intelligent specimens. And also, we should prepare to take care of those who drop into the "preparing to get better" category, who did not get the technology quite right. These twenty-two essays fall into a mix of science, technology and democracy that attempts to remove elitism from the question of what is "better." They comment on recombinant innovation, human-created hybrid zones for the results of experimentation, transhumanism, the results of transhumanism and religion, the promise and perils of human enhancement, transhumanism and the human person, and transhumanism as a futuristic vision. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University.
Kenneth L. Mossman is Professor of Health Physics at Arizona State University and administrative judge of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.