Citizen Cyborg : why democratic societies must respond to the redesigned human of the future / James Hughes.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, c2004.Description: xx, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813341981
- 610
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Tools for a better you: Better living through science and democracy -- Controlling the body -- Living longer -- Getting smarter -- Being happier -- Section II: The new biopolitical landscape: From future shock to biopolitics -- Cyborg Citizenship -- Defenders of natural law -- Left-wing bioluddites -- Upwingers, extropians and transhumanists -- Section III: Freedom and equality among the cyborgs: Democratic transhumanism -- Transhuman democracy -- Defending the future -- A sexy, high-techn vision for a radically democratic future.