What Enhancement Techniques Suggest about the Good Death
The contemporary increase in life expectancy in Western countries has led to an intensified focus on good ageing processes as a way to manage ageing populations. We argue that while qualifications of the ageing process such as active and healthy ageing endeavour to compress morbidity through enhanc...
Main Authors: | Aske Juul Lassen, Michael Christian Andersen |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Linköping University Electronic Press
2016-09-01
|
Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/23 |
Similar Items
-
From the necessity of being human to the possibility of pursuing a good life: cognitive enhancement and the emergence of personhood
by: Giovana Lopes, et al.
Published: (2021-04-01) -
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act: Socially Constructing a Good Death
by: Mauck, Erin E
Published: (2016) -
Agencements of Reanimation: Facilitating an Active Old Age through Danish Co-Creation Initiatives
by: Aske Juul Lassen
Published: (2019-08-01) -
Pregnancy, Brain Death, and A Proposed Louisiana Bill
by: Derek Ayeh
Published: (2014-06-01) -
Enhancing Psychopaths : On the permissibility of enhancing moral capacities in violent recidivist psychopaths, through compulsory direct brain intervention
by: Lyreskog, David
Published: (2013)