Exploring discourse surrounding therapeutic enhancement of veterans and soldiers with injuries.

نویسندگان

  • Gregor Wolbring
  • Angelica Martin
  • Jeremy Tynedal
  • Natalie Ball
  • Sophya Yumakulov
چکیده

BACKGROUND Human enhancement (the enhancement of the abilities of a normative person beyond the norm) of soldiers has been debated for some time. However, therapeutic enhancement of soldiers and veterans with injuries (the enhancement of the abilities of a sub-normative labeled person beyond the norm) is much less discussed. OBJECTIVE This article discusses 1) historical examples of policies and views linked to soldiers and veterans that have been injured in the Americas, and perception of injured veterans and soldiers; 2) the science and technology of the therapeutic enhancement landscape and 3) views of veterans on therapeutic enhancements. METHODS Three methods were used: a) historical search of policy documents; b) content analysis of the New York Times and c) online delivered exploratory non-probability survey using the Survey Monkey platform. RESULTS Researchers found that veterans played a special role in policy developments in the United States, such as disability pension plans, and that veterans who were injured were portrayed more positively than other people with disabilities in the NYT from 1851-2010. However, within the current public discourse around the use of enhancement enabling therapeutic assistive devices, the voices of injured soldiers and veterans are not visible. CONCLUSIONS Therapeutic enhancements, especially of injured soldiers and veterans, are an under researched area with various open ethical questions in need of more coverage.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Work

دوره 50 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015