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Building a Better Human: Arguing Enhancement/Enhancing Arguments

PWR 2SBA - Winter 2015 - Instructor: Brawn, S.
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(1) Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies / edited by Ruth Chadwick.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.
Green Library » Information Center » QH332 .C66 2001
Cyborg selves : a theological anthropology of the posthuman / Jeanine Thweatt-Bates.
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
Green Library » Stacks » BL256 .T55 2012
Available online
Ethics in medicine / by Shabih H. Zaidi.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Available online
The human enhancement debate and disability : new bodies for a better life / edited by Miriam Eilers (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), Katrin Grüber (Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Berlin, Germany), Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (University of Lübeck, Germany).
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » R724 .H775 2014
Human enhancement / edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Law Library (Crown) » Basement » RA418.5 .M4 H86 2009
In pursuit of nanoethics / Bert Gordijn, Anthony Mark Cutter, editors.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
         ***          See chapter on Nanomedicine and Body Modification
New dictionary of the history of ideas / edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005.
Green Library » Information Center » CB9 .N49 2005 V.1
Available online and in the Information Center stacks
Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia / Sal Restivo, editor in chief.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Green Library » Information Center » HM846 .S43 2005
Available online and in the Information Center stacks
Science talk : changing notions of science in American popular culture / Daniel Patrick Thurs.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » Q125 .T574 2007
Available online
Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits / Nicholas Agar.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » RA418.5 .M4 A23 2014
Available online

(2) Selected books on the intersection of Art, Science and Technology

Take a look at the Searchworks records for these books - note the Subject category links -- you can find more books like these by clicking on the subject links or browsing the shelves nearby.

Anatomy of a robot : literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people / Despina Kakoudaki.
Green Library » Stacks » PN56 .R56 K35 2014
Blur of the otherworldly : contemporary art, technology, and the paranormal / Mark Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching ; contributions by Lynne Tillman and Marina Warner.
Baltimore, Md. : Center for Art and Visual Culture, c2006.
Art & Architecture Library (Bowes) » Stacks » NX460 .D87 2006
Engineering nature : art & consciousness in the post-biological era / edited by Roy Ascott.
Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR, USA : Intellect, 2006.
Green Library » Stacks » N72 .T4 E54 2006
Also available online (see link in Searchworks record)
Performance and technology : practices of virtual embodiment and interactivity / edited by Susan Broadhurst and Josephine Machon.
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Art & Architecture Library (Bowes) » Stacks » NX180 .T4 P47 2006

(3) Selected books on the intersection of Beauty, Body and Technology

Apocalypse culture / edited by Adam Parfrey.
Expanded & rev. ed. [Portland, OR] : Feral House, c1990.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » CB430 .A66 1990
The body aesthetic : from fine art to body modification / edited by Tobin Siebers.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
Green Library » Stacks » GN298 .B6 2000
Inventing iron man : the possibility of a human machine / E. Paul Zehr.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TJ211 .Z42 2011
Metal and flesh : the evolution of man : technology takes over / Ollivier Dyens ; translated by Evan J. Bibbee and Ollivier Dyens.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
Green Library » Lane Reading Room » HM846 .D9413 2001
Modern primitives : an investigation of contemporary adornment & ritual.
San Francisco, CA : Re/Search Publications, c1989.
Green Library » Stacks » GN419.15 .M63 1989
Our own devices : the past and future of body technology / Edward Tenner.
1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » T14.5 .T4588 2003
Modernism, technology, and the body : a cultural study / Tim Armstrong.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Green Library » Stacks » PS225 .M63 A89 1998
Technologized images, technologized bodies / edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade.
New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Green Library » Stacks » GN296 .T33 2010

(4) Selected Ejournals and Databases

Try these databases and e-journals to find articles from the academic, legal, medical, and popular perspectives

HeinOnline [electronic resource].
Buffalo, NY : William S. Hein & Co., [2000]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
              See, for instance, this 2012 article titled "Body Modification and Adolescent Decision Making: Proceed with Caution"
LexisNexis [electronic resource] : academic.
[Miamisburg, OH] : LexisNexis, division of Reed Elsevier
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Nanoethics [electronic resource].
New York : Springer, 2007-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
           ** See the special issue on  "Self-Made Cyborgs and Visions of Transhuman Corporeality"
ProQuest. Research library [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
          **You can add to the search the databases Psycinfo, Sociological Abstracts, Proquest Newsstand, all the Proquest historical newspapers, Gender Watch, Ethnic News Watch, AltPress Watch, PAIS International (Public Policy) and many more
Web of science--all databases.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource