Citizen Cyborg

2004 non-fiction book by James Hughes

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future

Author| James Hughes
Publisher| Westview Press (hardcover)
Basic Books (paperback)

Publication date

| October 31, 2004
Pages| 294 (hardcover)
320 (paperback)
ISBN| 0-8133-4198-1
OCLC| 56632213

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 non-fiction book by bioethicist and sociologist James Hughes, which articulates democratic transhumanism as a socio-political ideology and program.[1]

The editors of the popular science magazine Scientific American recommended Citizen Cyborg in their April 2005 issue.[2]

## See also

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* Bioconservatism
* Democratic transhumanism
* Gattaca critical reception
* Libertarian transhumanism

## References

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1. ^ Hughes, James (2004). Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-4198-1.
2. ^ Hall, Brian K. (2005). "Evo Devo is the New Buzzword: For the 200-year-old search for links between embryos and evolution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-07. Retrieved 2007-03-06. `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)

## External links

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* Google Books: Citizen Cyborg
* Citizen Cyborg References and Resources by Chapter

Reviews

* Citizen Cyborg Reviews
* Forman, Frank. Transhumanism's Vital Center. Journal of Evolution and Technology (April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
* Doctorow, Cory. Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg. Boing Boing (11 April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
* Ford, Alyssa. Humanity: The Remix. Utne Reader (May/June 2005) . Retrieved on 2011-07-07
* Bailey, Ronald. Trans-Human Expressway. Reason (11 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
* Cave, Stephen; Cave, Friederike von Tiesenhausen. The most dangerous idea on earth?, Financial Times (27 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
* Arrison, Sonia. Future Humans. TechNewsWorld (6 October 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07

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