ABSTRACT
Throughout history, humans have used various techniques to augment and alter cognitive capacities, behavior, and physical capabilities. Recent progress in pharmacology, neuroscience, genetics, regenerative medicine, artificial intelligence, and bioengineering has allowed the development of drugs, procedures, and devices not only to treat various disorders but also to use the same technologies to enhance human capabilities, if not possibly alter the very notion of what it means to be human. The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement offers a timely and comprehensive examination of the current debates on human enhancement. In addition, technological advances have significantly evolved in the last decade and are now on the verge of expanding our ability to redefine human biology and the capacities of our brain as well as intervene in the brain and mind to alter behavior.
