PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Toby Handfield
AU  - Pei-hua Huang
AU  - Robert Mark Simpson
TI  - Climate change, cooperation and moral bioenhancement
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2016-103593
DP  - 2016 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 742--747
VI  - 42
IP  - 11
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/11/742.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/11/742.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2016 Nov 01; 42
AB  - The human faculty of moral judgement is not well suited to address problems, like climate change, that are global in scope and remote in time. Advocates of ‘moral bioenhancement’ have proposed that we should investigate the use of medical technologies to make human beings more trusting and altruistic and hence more willing to cooperate in efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change. We survey recent accounts of the proximate and ultimate causes of human cooperation in order to assess the prospects for bioenhancement. We identify a number of issues that are likely to be significant obstacles to effective bioenhancement, as well as areas for future research.