I am thrilled to announce that my monograph, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics, is due out with Lexington Books by the end of the year.

In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, I tackle the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. I draw on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. I provide new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. I conclude that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished.

If you or a colleague might be interested in reviewing the book pre- or post-publication, please let me know by writing to me at mchall@stetson.edu.