%0 Journal Article
%T Transhumanist Medicine: Can We Direct Its Power to the Service of Human Dignity?
%A Ren¨¦e Mirkes
%J The Linacre Quarterly
%@ 2050-8549
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0024363919838134
%X The medicalization of transhumanist technologies demands our prompt and undivided attention. This article surveys the principal body/mind enhancement goals of transhumanist medicine and the means it would employ¡ªgenetic, robo, info-, and nanotechnologies¡ªto accomplish those ends (Part One). Second, it engages Christian anthropological and natural law principles to evaluate the populist and essentialist concerns these therapeutic/enhancement interventions provoke (Part Two). And, third, it proposes formation of a Catholic medical think tank to appraise whether transhumanist biotechnologies can serve human dignity and, to the extent they can, to formulate wise clinical/administrative guidelines for their inclusion in US Catholic healthcare settings (Part Three). This article explores the body/mind enhancement goals of transhumanist medicine, evaluates the biotechnological means to accomplish those therapeutic/enhancement goals, and suggests the formation of a Catholic medical think tank to formulate wise clinical/administrative guidelines for the inclusion of genetic, robo, info-, and nanotechnologies in US Catholic healthcare settings
%K genetics
%K robo
%K info-
%K nanotechnologies
%K Transhumanism
%K Transhumanist medicine
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0024363919838134