Eilers Miriam, Grüber Katrin, and Rehmann-Sutter Christoph : The human enhancement debate and disability: new bodies for a better life: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xviii + 257 pp, $105 , ISBN 978-1-13-740552-4 [Book Review]

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (3):237-241 (2016)
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Eilers Miriam, Gru¨ber Katrin, and Rehmann-Sutter Christoph’s latest edited volume, The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability: New Bodies for a Better Life, may at first seem to be just another book about human enhancement, on which there is a significant detailed literature. But, in fact, this book provides a novel16 perspective to the human enhancement debate by observing it through the disability lens, even as it gathers contributions from various experts from diverse fields. This interdisciplinary approach shows how disability and human enhancement are tightly correlated in the debate on the latter

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