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    • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Neuroethics

    Background:

    • Human enhancement advocates propose biomedical modulation of traits for welfare.
    • Recent proposals extend this to modulating lust, attraction, and attachment.
    • This intersects with the therapy vs. enhancement debate.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore conceptual implications of medicalizing love, lust, and attraction.
    • To analyze how this proposal impacts bioconservative views on therapy and enhancement.
    • To re-examine the notion of "normality" in the context of human enhancement.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptual analysis of human enhancement literature.
    • Examination of bioconservative arguments regarding therapy and enhancement.
    • Philosophical inquiry into the medicalization of emotions and relationships.

    Main Results:

    • Medicalizing love presents unique challenges compared to other bioenhancements.
    • The therapy-enhancement distinction, often based on "normality," is complicated by love's medicalization.
    • A value-free definition of "therapy" is difficult to apply to love.

    Conclusions:

    • Bioconservatives must reconsider their definitions of "therapy" and "enhancement" in light of love's medicalization.
    • New criteria are needed to distinguish permissible from impermissible medicalization of love.
    • The study argues for a re-evaluation of whether love can fall under the domain of medicine.