Human Enhancements for Space Missions
This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts operating in hostile space environments, but also ethical and theological aspects are addressed. In contrast to the idea and program of human enhancement on Earth, human enhancement in space is considered a serious and necessary option. This book aims at scholars in the following fields: ethics and philosophy, space policy, public policy, as well as biologists and psychologists.
| ISBN: | 9783030420352 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 291 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Szocik, Konrad |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 08.08.2020 |
| Untertitel: | Lunar, Martian, and Future Missions to the Outer Planets |
| Schlagworte: | Human enhancement Human space missions Mission to Mars Space environment Space policy Space program Space radiation Space settlement research ethics |
Konrad Szocik (born 1985 in Zary, Poland) received his PhD in Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, and editor of the “Studia Humana” journal. Research areas include space philosophy and space ethics (mainly the idea of human enhancement for space), and cognitive and evolutionary study of religion.