For educators: https://www.newday.com/film/fixed Sign up for updates about FIXED: http://fixedthemovie.com/contact Follow FIXED on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FIXED.the.movie Or visit the film website: http://fixedthemovie.com/ Produced, directed and edited by Regan Brashear. Trailer edited by Josh Peterson. Synopsis: From botox to bionic limbs, the human body is more “upgradeable” than ever. But how much of it can we alter and still be human? What do we gain or lose in the process? Award-winning documentary, Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, explores the social impact of human augmentation. Haunting and humorous, poignant and political, Fixed rethinks "disability" and "normalcy" by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and minds forever. ***** There is a growing buzz around the potential for science and technology to create significant "human enhancement" applications, such as bionic limbs, improved memory or cognition, or the ability to choose specific characteristics for our offspring. The possibilities stir the imagination and excitement of many, while for others the rhetoric and current research into human enhancement signals alarms of a new eugenics. And yet, for most non-scientists, this sounds like the realm of science fiction, a world awash in mystery and misunderstanding. Featuring disability studies scholar Dominika Bednarska; disability justice educator Patty Berne; exoskeleton test pilot Fernanda Castelo; bionics engineer Hugh Herr; NPR radio host John Hockenberry; biochemist and ability studies scholar Gregor Wolbring; robot scientist Rodney Brooks; futurist Jamais Cascio; bioethicist and policy advocate Marcy Darnovsky; brain-computer interface study participant Tim Hemmes; philosophy professor Cressida Heyes; transhumanist James Hughes; reproductive rights advocate Sujatha Jesudason; disability lawyer Silvia Yee. With cameo performances by some of the world’s leading integrated dance companies, featuring disabled and non-disabled dancers and artists, including the Anjali Dance Company, Antoine Hunter (of Sins Invalid and Urban Jazz Dance Company), AXIS, Candoco, Dancing Wheels, GIMP, Kounterclockwise, Lisa Bufano, Marc Brew, Remix Dance Company, and Sue Austin/Freewheeling. Through a dynamic mix of verité, dance, archival and interview footage, Fixed challenges notions of normal, the body and what it means fundamentally to be human in the 21st century. Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement is an essential teaching and research tool for: * Science & Technology Studies * Disability Studies * Sociology/ American Studies/ Community Studies * Anthropology/ Medical Humanities * Law / Legal studies/ Medical Ethics/ Bioethics * Gender/ Feminist Studies * Psychology/ Counseling Programs * History (Eugenics in the U.S.) * Social Welfare/ Social Work * Bioengineering/ Genetics/ Neuroscience * Engineering / Biomechatronics * Public Health / Public Policy * Environmental & Urban design / Architecture * Medical schools / Prosthetic, Orthotic, Physical therapy & Rehabilitation programs * Dance/Performance studies

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1. When can I as an ordinary person watch this?
2. a part of this comes to value judgements about disability or deficient qualities. there is an assumption that shiny gizmos aren't as vulnerable to decay as the biological organism. we've been conditioned by technological fetishism to look for quick fixes, losing sight with respect to issues of resource availability and socioeconomic privilege 
3. Re: transhumanism -- What about apparently simple problems that are yet to be solved, for example, head hair loss? How close to preventing or reversing?