enhancement
- Subj. Area:
- V Medicine and Care
- Ger:
- Enhancement
- Fr:
- amélioration
- SN:
- The use of technology-based interventions or the application of medical treatment to improve or augment human capacities/traits rather than to treat disease (based on MeSH-2007); for illegitimate application of drugs for performance improvement in sports use 'doping in sports'; for the use of genetic technologies to improve or augment human capacities or traits use 'genetic enhancement'; for the application of drugs or technology-based interventions to improve cognitive capacities or psychological well-being use 'neuroenhancement'
- UF:
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biomedical enhancement
enhancement technologies
human enhancement
- RT:
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doping in sports
medical treatment
medicalisation
normality
perfection
performance-enhancing substances
plastic surgery
transhumanism
- Conc:
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B: Enhancement technologies
E: enhancement technologies
I: -
M: Biomedical Enhancement (D024803)
