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  James
Hughes, Ph.D.
James is professor of health policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and has taught medical sociology, bioethics, and health policy at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Connecticut. He has published widely on bioethics, health policy, politics and Buddhism (he is a former Buddhist monk). His book Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future (Westview/Perseus Books) argues that transhuman technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically and made equally available in a liberal society. With fresh and controversial answers for issues ranging from human genetic engineering and cloning to healthcare and assisted suicide, Citizen Cyborg is a groundbreaking work of social commentary that addresses—and helps define—the emerging debate on the future of the human race. Gregory Stock, author of Redesigning Humans, calls Citizen Cyborg "a challenging and provocative look at the intersection of human self-modification and political governance." Joel Garreau, author of While God Wasn't Watching: The Future of Human Nature, Edge City, and The Nine Nations of North America, says "Citizen Cyborg is an important contribution to the rapidly moving debate on human enhancement." John Lantos M.D., author of Do We Still Need Doctors? and past president of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, calls it "a powerful indictment of the anti-rationalist attitudes that are dominating our national policy today." Cory Doctorow calls Citizen Cyborg "genuinely surprising, engaging and engrossing" and says "Hughes's remarkable achievement in Citizen Cyborg is the fusion of social democratic ideals of tempered, reasoned state intervention to promote equality of opportunity with the ideal of self-determination." Scientific American picked it as a recommended title, it was discussed in the Financial Times and The New Atlantis, the Utne Reader featured James in their cover article on transhumanism, and he was featured on NPR's To The Best of Our Knowledge. |
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