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Subject(s)

• Astronauts—Physiology [Browse]
• Manned space flight—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Manned space flight—Health aspects [Browse]
• Gene editing—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Performance technology—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Human body and technology—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'The Bioethics of Space Exploration' provides a comprehensive discussion of the possible bioethical issues and challenges that may arise when considering future long-term space missions. Because of numerous threats within the space environment, many consider the concept of radically modifying humans to be a serious and perhaps even necessary option. Konrad Szocik presents what types of ethical and bioethical challenges may await participants on commercial, scientific, and colonizing missions, and provides a new perspective into the potential for radical biomedical technologies.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource.

Contents

• Cover
• The Bioethics of Space Exploration
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The Place of Space Bioethics in the Philosophy and Ethics of Space Missions
• 2. Human Health Risks in Space and the Methodology of Space Bioethics
• 3. Biomedical Human Enhancement
• 4. Germline Gene Editing and Embryo Selection for Future Long-​Term Space Missions
• 5. Justification of Human Enhancement versus Rationale for Space Missions
• 6. Is the Bioethics of Space Missions Different from Bioethics on Earth?
• 7. Moral Bioenhancement in Long-​Term Space Missions
• 8. Space Bioethics, Population Ethics, and Space Colonization
• 9. Conclusions
• Appendix: Bioethics of Space Missions in the Light of Futures Studies
• Notes
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-762849-4
• 0-19-762850-8
• 0-19-762848-6

OCLC

1379438808

Doi

10.1093/oso/9780197628478.001.0001

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