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When is diminishment a form of enhancement? : rethinking the enhancement debate in biomedical ethics
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The enhancement debate in neuroscience and biomedical ethics tends to focus on the augmentation of certain capacities or functions: memory, learning, attention, and the like. Typically, the point of contention is whether these augmentative enhancements should be considered permissible for individuals with no particular “medical” disadvantage along any of the dimensions of interest. Less frequently addressed in the literature, however, is the fact that sometimes the diminishment of a ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00012
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Kahane, G
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100705/Z/12/Z, WT087208MF
Oxford Martin School
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Volkswagen Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Pages:
- Article 12
- Publication date:
- 2014-02-01
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1662-5137
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1662-5137
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-23
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- 2014
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Copyright © 2014 Earp, Sandberg, Kahane and Savulescu. This is an open-access
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