Abstract
Enhancements are about bettering human beings in some way and tend to be thought of as pursuits that aim to augment human beings in some way beyond what is normal. The very conception of enhancements is contested within the debate, and conceptual clarification arguments and normative arguments both against and for enhancements have been formulated within a vast literature. By examining such arguments, this essay presents the state of the enhancement debate with a particular focus on global bioethical inquiry.
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Edwards, G. (2015). Enhancement. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_172-1
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