"To live without a sense of smell is one of the more unsettling forms of human disability, and one of the least understood," writes Wilson.
It is a predictable, if regrettable, psychic defense mechanism in those first difficult years of immersion in human disability and death.
Future technologies will not only compensate for human disability but will drive human capacities beyond innate physiological levels, enabling humans to perform a diverse set of tasks with both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic extended bodies.
It was the tearful, triumphant climax to Herr's March 2014 TED talk, in which he laid out his goal of "eliminating human disability through technology".
For Macy, it was the exploration of human disability, a subject he believes we typically avoid, and additionally the opportunity to encourage broader construction of sexual consciousness, which convinced him to take on the role.
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is a brain disorder affecting the elderly and it is one of the causes of human disability and death in the developed world [1].
In a scenario of achieving 52% reduction of brucellosis transmission between animals, 51,856 human brucellosis cases could be averted, which would add up to a gain of 49,027 human disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; see Appendix).
Promising therapies that may enhance training-induced cognitive and motor learning, such as brain stimulation and neuropharmacological interventions, were identified, along with questions of how best to use this body of information to reduce human disability.
Data further supporting this paper can be found in the GigaScience Database [ 31] All clinical data and tumour tissue used in this study were collected with informed consent under ethics approvals from the institutional ethics committees of the participating centres and from the human disability and ethics committee (HDEC) of New Zealand (approval numbers are: CTY/01/10/141 and CTY/01/10/142).
Now in the second decade of the twenty-first century, feminist theorists are doing an extraordinary variety of work on matters political and democratic, including global ethics, human rights, disabilities studies, bioethics, climate change, and international development.
