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Rebecca Roache

Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford
Verified email at philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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[PDF][PDF] Ethical issues in human enhancement

N Bostrom, R Roache - New waves in applied ethics, 2008 - elearning.ntvt.nl
What is Human Enhancement? Human enhancement has emerged in recent years as a
blossoming topic in applied ethics. With continuing advances in science and technology …

Bioconservatism, bioliberalism, and the wisdom of reflecting on repugnance

R Roache, S Clarke - Monash Bioethics Review, 2009 - Springer
We consider the current debate between bioconservatives and their chief opponents—
whom we dub bioliberals—about the moral acceptability of human enhancement and the …

Human engineering and climate change

SM Liao, A Sandberg, R Roache - Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Anthropogenic climate change is arguably one of the biggest problems that confront us
today. There is ample evidence that climate change is likely to affect adversely many …

Smart policy: Cognitive enhancement and the public interest

N Bostrom, R Roache - Enhancing human capacities, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter concentrates mainly on biomedical cognitive enhancements, but many of the
remarks apply equally to enhancements that work on non‐cognitive capacities, and to non …

Ethics, speculation, and values

R Roache - Nanoethics, 2008 - Springer
Some writers claim that ethicists involved in assessing future technologies like
nanotechnology and human enhancement devote too much time to debating issues that …

Reassessing biopsychosocial psychiatry

W Davies, R Roache - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2017 - cambridge.org
Psychiatry uncomfortably spans biological and psychosocial perspectives on mental illness,
an idea central to Engel's biopsychosocial paradigm. This paradigm was extremely …

Why is informed consent important?

R Roache - 2014 - jme.bmj.com
In our feature article, Nir Eyal attacks attempts by bioethicists including Onora O'Neill,
Torbjörn Tännsjö, and Jennifer Jackson to ground the importance of informed consent in its …

[BOOK][B] Psychiatry reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine

J Savalescu, LW Davies, R Roache, W Davies… - 2020 - books.google.com
Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive
collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of …

Enhancing conservatism

R Roache, J Savulescu - The Ethics of Human Enhancement, 2016 - library.oapen.org
Debate between bioliberals (who adopt a permissive view about human enhancement) and
bioconservatives (who oppose it) often fails to be constructive, since bioliberals are often …

Memory and mineness in personal identity

R Roache - Philosophical Psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Stanley Klein and Shaun Nichols (2012) describe the case of patient RB, whose
memories (they claim) lacked the sense of “mineness” usually conveyed by memory. Klein …