Enhancement in Sport, and Enhancement outside Sport

Tom Douglas completed degrees in medicine and bioethics at the University of Otago (New Zealand) before moving to Oxford to study philosophy and economics. He is currently a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he will take up a Wellcome Trust research fellowship in late 2009.

Tom’s research focuses on the ethics of biomedical enhancement – that is, using biomedical technologies to augment the capacities of healthy people. He is particularly interested in the biomedical modification of moral psychology. Tom has also worked on fairness and corrective justice, organ donation policy, causal slippery slope arguments, and the misuse of science. In 2007, he completed a project on distributive justice and enhancement at the Brocher Foundation. During his 2009 visit he is organising a symposium on the ethics of enhancement and working on a paper on the neuroscience of morality and its implications for the enhancement debate.

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Distributive justice and the Debate on Human Enhancement