Body and Enhancement Technology

A special issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal This issue explores the practice of applying science and technology to expand our cognitive and physical capacities. Covering global Asia, these articles investigate enhancement in relation to aesthetics, genetics, cognition, and musculature and consider enhancements ethical and societal implications. The contributors address a range of topicsfrom elite sports to the socioeconomics of plastic surgery in South Korea to memory devices in Blade Runnerand problematize increasing efforts to engineer and augment human bodily functions. This issue illustrates how the emergence of new technologies and their merging with the body will challenge our perception of normal human conditions: our physical strength, our appearance, and our cognitive capabilities. Contributors Eduardo Zachary Albrecht, Masato Fukushima, Jaehwan Hyun, So Yeon Leem, Eunjeong Ma