Call for papers.  Deadline 28 February, 2012

Some key questions posed:  

• Is human identity being transformed, redefined or superseded through new developments in medicine and technology?
• Do these new emerging technologies present as radical and revolutionary changes to how we see ourselves (as is sometimes claimed)? Or, are they in fact no different to their predecessors?
• How are we to evaluate or assess the moral significance of these new technologies to our identity as humans?
• What does it mean to have identity and to be identifiable in the 21st Century?
•  Are new technologies helping to redefine what we recognise as the human body? Are they in some ways helping to make the human body redundant? If so, in what ways?
•   What are the social, ethical and policy implications of these changes, both locally and globally, as we increasingly encounter the rapid expansion of biotechnologies worldwide?
•  Is altering the shape and appearance of the body contributing to our loss of contact with the body? How does this affect traditional ideas about the mind/body distinction?

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