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Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement: Advantages in Corporate/Organizational Settings

Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement: Advantages in Corporate/Organizational Settings

Ben Tran
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781466685925|ISBN10: 1466685921|EISBN13: 9781466685932
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8592-5.ch007
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Tran, Ben. "Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement: Advantages in Corporate/Organizational Settings." Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology, edited by Jeffrey White and Rick Searle, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 124-150. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8592-5.ch007

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Tran, B. (2015). Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement: Advantages in Corporate/Organizational Settings. In J. White & R. Searle (Eds.), Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology (pp. 124-150). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8592-5.ch007

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Tran, Ben. "Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement: Advantages in Corporate/Organizational Settings." In Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology, edited by Jeffrey White and Rick Searle, 124-150. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8592-5.ch007

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is on issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. In so doing, the purpose of this chapter will also analyze the paradigms of bioethics and (business) ethics and legality will be utilized in analyzing the issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. Human enhancement, used in this chapter, includes any activity by which we improve our bodies, minds, or abilities beyond what we regard today as normal. In relations to advantages in corporations and organizational settings, human enhancement, used in this chapter, means ways to make functional changes to human characteristic, also referred to as neuro-cognitive enhancements, beyond what we regard as typical, normal, or statistically normal range of functioning for an individual.

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