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Ineke Malsch, ObservatoryNano
Be prepared for life with enhanced humans. Current debates on Nanobioethics, Interview with Dr Daniela Cerqui
Type of publication: Others
Abstract: Under the header of Nanobioethics, ObservatoryNano aims to highlight technological and economic trends in nanotechnology for health, medical, biotechnological and agrifood applications with potential ethical and social implications. Simultaneously, current debates on relevant issues in nanobioethics among ethicists and social scientists, policy making circles and stakeholders are analysed and confronted with the issues emerging from the technical and economic trends. This way, emerging issues not discussed sufficiently can be identified and brought to the attention of policy makers in the second annual report on nanobio ethics to be published online in the spring of 2010. The series of interviews with opinion leaders is intended to be a compilation of different views on the relevant issues currently in debate from the perspective of a social scientist or ethicist, a natural scientist, and stakeholders from industry and civil society. As human enhancement continues to feature on the policy makers agenda (c.f. the STOA-TAB-Rathenau Institute project on Human Enhancement and recent meeting at the European Parliament), the first interview this year is with anthropologist Dr Daniela Cerqui discussing how trends in nanotechnology, converging technologies and other human enhancement technologies may influence “what it means to be human”.
Summary: Dr Daniela Cerqui has been working closely with Prof Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading, UK, on anthropological issues related to cyborgs and converging technologies for improving human potential. Kevin Warwick has experimented with implanting microchips in his nervous system for communicating wirelessly with computers and exchanging nerve signals with his wife. Daniela has published and contributed to the public debate about what it means to be human given the implications of nanotechnologies, converging technologies and other enhancement technologies for human self-perception.
More information: http://www.observatorynano.eu/proje [..]
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