Singularity Institute

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Human Enhancement, Life Extension and Nanotechnology

• Bailey, R. 2005. Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution. Prometheus Books.
• Bostrom, N. 2005. A History of Transhumanist Thought. Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1.
• Bostrom, N. 2005. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity. Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 202-214.
• Bostrom, N. 2005. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant. Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 273-277.
• Bostrom, N. 2003. Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective. Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 493-506.
• Bostrom, N. 2003. The Transhumanist FAQ: A General Introduction. Published by Humanity+
• Bostrom, N. and J. Savulescu eds. 2007. How Can Human Nature Be Ethically Improved?. Oxford University Press.
• Brock, D. et al. 2000. From Chance to Choice: Genes and Social Justice. Cambridge University Press.
• de Grey, A. D. N. J. ed. 2004. Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: Why Genuine Control of Aging May Be Foreseeable. Annals NY Acad Sci, Vol. 1019.
• de Grey, A. D. N. J. 2005. Life Extension, Human Rights, and the Rational Refinement of Repugnance.

  Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 11, pp. 659–663.

• de Grey, A. D. N. J. 2004. Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now. PLoS Biology, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 723-726.
• DeGrazia, D. 2005. Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 261-283.
• DeGrazia, D. 2005. Human Identity and Bioethics. Cambridge University Press.
• Drexler, K. E. 1992. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation. Wiley, John & Sons.
• Drexler, K. E. 1986. Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. Anchor, 1987.
• Farah, M. et al. 2004. Neurocognitive Enhancement: What Can We Do and What Should We Do?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Vol. 5, pp. 421–425.
• Freitas Jr., R. A. 2003. Nanomedicine Volume IIA: Biocompatibility. Landes Bioscience.
• Freitas Jr., R. A. 1999. Nanomedicine Volume I: Basic Capabilities. Landes Bioscience.
• Freitas Jr., R. A. and Merkle R. C. 2004. Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines. Landes Bioscience.
• Fukuyama, F. 2002. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Picador, 2003.
• Gardner, W. 1995. Can Genetic Enhancement Be Prohibited?. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65–84.
• Garreau, J. 2005. Radical Evolution. Doubleday.
• Gems, D. 2003. Is More Life Always Better? The New Biology of Aging and the Meaning of Life. Hastings Center Report, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 31–39.
• Glover, J. 1984. What Sort of People Should There Be?. Penguin.
• Harman, D. ed. 2002. Increasing Healthy Life Span: Conventional Measures and Slowing the Innate Aging Process. Annals NY Acad Sci, Vol. 959.
• Harris, J. 2004. Immortal Ethics. In de Grey, A. D. N. J., ed.
• Hughes, J. 2004. Citizen Cyborg. Prometheus Books.
• Jones, R. 2004. Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life. Oxford University Press.
• Loftis, J. R. 2005. Germ-Line Enhancement of Humans and Nonhumans. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 57–76.
• McKibben, B. 2003. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Owl Books, 2003.
• More, M. 2005. The Proactionary Principle. Published by the Extropy Institute.
• Naam, R. 2005. More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. Broadway.
• Parens, E. 1998. Is Better Always Good? The Enhancement Project. Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. S1–S20.
• Parens, E. 1995. The Goodness of Fragility: On the Prospects of Technologies Aimed at the Enhancement of Human Beings. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 141–153.
• Phoenix, C. and K. E. Drexler 2004. Safe Exponential Manufacturing. Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, pp. 869–872.
• Rose, M. 2005. The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging. Oxford University Press.
• Savulescu, J. 2001. Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children. Bioethics, Vol. 15, No. 5/6, pp. 413–426.