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Generous Funding for Interventive Aging Research Now?

Matti Häyry

Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 1 (1) (2007)

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Tuhatvuotisen elämän tarkoitus.Matti Häyry - 2018 - Ajatus 75 (1):57-74.details Lääketieteellisten teknologioiden kehitys voi tulevaisuudessa johtaa siihen, että ihmisten elinikä voidaan moninkertaistaa. Eri filosofisista lähtökohdista tällaisen toiminnan toivottavuuteen voidaan suhtautua eri tavoin. Jonathan Glover ja John Harris ovat tervehtineet mahdollisuutta ilolla ja suositelleet pyrkimistä sen toteuttamiseen. Enemmän elämää on heidän mielestään parempi kuin vähemmän, eikä asiaa tarvitse sen kummemmin monimutkaistaa. Leon Kass ja Jürgen Habermas ovat puolestaan torjuneet ajatuksen kauhistuneina. Elämämme arvo ei riipu sen pituudesta, vaan sen annetusta tai lahjana saadusta sisällöstä. Kirjoituksessa teen selkoa näistä kahdesta vastakkaisesta kannasta koskien (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Considerable Life Extension and Three Views on the Meaning of Life.Matti Häyry - 2011 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (1):21-29.details Picture this. You are having your regular medical checkup, when, all of a sudden, the physician turns to you and says: “Oh, did I remember to mention that you can now live forever?” You look at the doctor enquiringly and she goes on: “Well, it’s not actual immortality, you know, but they’ve invented this treatment—I don’t have the full details—that stops aging, getting physically older. It might not be for everyone, but you seem to be a suitable candidate. You could (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
Discourse, upstream public engagement and the governance of human life extension research.Matthew Cotton - 2009 - Poiesis and Praxis 7 (1-2):135-150.details Important scientific, ethical and sociological debates are emerging over the trans-humanist goal to achieve therapeutic treatments to âcureâ the debilitation of age-related illness and extend the healthy life span of individuals through interventive biogerontological research. The scientific and moral discourses surrounding this contentious scientific field are mapped out, followed by a normative argument favouring âstrongâ deliberative democratic control of human life extension research. This proposal incorporates insights from constructive and participatory technology assessment, upstream public engagement and back-casting analysis; to outline (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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