Report: Forme di vita emergenti tra potenziamento e medicalizzazione (Università di Salerno, 29 marzo 2017)

Abstract

Emergent Life Forms between Enhancement and Medicalization The connection between biotechnologies and subjectivation processes has become a central topic in biopolitical and bioethical debates. The March 29, 2017, at the University of Salerno, there was a meeting in which this issue was discussed in the perspectives of human enhancement, posthuman and medicalization. It was analysed ethical and political impact of biotechnologies on new forms of life, focusing on the possible risks of human enhancement on morality and the problem of medicalization of life.

Keywords

• Enhancement
• Medicalization
• bioethics