Health Sciences 2610F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Allen Buchanan, Neuroenhancement, Plastic Surgery
27 Apr 2016
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With the rapid advancements in medicine, scientific developments are happening. Enhancement: biomedical enhancement, interested in possibilities of improving normal human capacities with genetic intervention, administration of drugs, neural tissue implants, computer-brain technologies, anything that adds new capacities. Different than a cure for something; yet if you have a hip replacement, the new hip will be better. Prosthetics can be so good in running that they"re disqualified burry line between treatment or enhancement. If you give human growth hormone to short people, it will increase their height not a treatment of disease, but will help being short. Types of enhancements depend on capacities you want to improve cognitive enhancement, sport enhancement, affective enhancement which are temperament enhancing, any dimension of human capacity at some point could have some type of enhancement. Drugs, even caffeine, are cognitive enhancement study drugs originally developed for. Add, narcolepsy, or alzheimer"s, but boosts the intelligence of normal people.
