A theory of the super soldier : the morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military / Jean-François Caron.
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TextSeries: Manchester Security, Conflict & PeacePublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 119 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781526117786
- U42 .T446 2018
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies; 2 The moral obligation of soldier enhancement research; 3 Military capacity-increasing technologies and their consequences; 4 The ethics of developing capacity-increasing technologies; 5 Permanent capacity-increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger; Conclusion; Index.
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
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