More Than Human by Ramez Naam

Introduction	Healing and Enhancing	Read an excerpt>>
How medicine is leading to enhancement. The moral and ethical case for individual and family choice.
Chapter 1	Choosing Our Bodies	Read an excerpt>>
Gene therapy from Ashanti DeSilva (the first human patient) to boosting strength, speed, and stamina.
Chapter 2	Choosing Our Minds
Gene therapy and next gen smart-drugs could soon alter memory, attention, and personality.
Chapter 3	Created Equal
The intersection of enhancements, economics, and the law. Market mechanisms and dropping costs. The risks of prohibition and black markets. The value of investing in human resources.
Chapter 4	Methuselah's Genes
Single genetic changes can double life span in many species. The prospects for extending human life.
Chapter 5	Choosing Our Life Spans
More on the prospects of genetically and bioechemically slowing, halting, or reversing human aging.
Chapter 6	Methuselah's World
Impact of slowed aging on population, economics, politics, the workforce, and civil culture.
Chapter 7	A Child of One's Own
2 million "test tube babies" have been born. Trends in using technology to control reproduction.
Chapter 8	A Child of Choice	Read an excerpt>>
The intersection of genetic engineering with reproductive technology. Myths and realities of "designer babies" and human cloning. The case for choice as freedom and prohibition as eugenic.
Chapter 9	The Wired Brain
Brain implants have restored vision to the blind and motion to the paralyzed. What the future holds.
Chapter 10	World Wide Mind
Neural implants to alter memory, perception, and particularly communication. The prospects for mind-to-mind communication and an information revolution. The effect on collective intelligence and culture.
Chapter 11	Life Without Limits
What does it mean to be human? The case that we are defined not by our limits, but by our constant striving to overcome them. The evolutionary history of humanity, and speculation on our deep evolutionary future.