Bioethics and the Posthumanities

Buch | Hardcover

132 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-89720-8 (ISBN)

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This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and explores the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and considers the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

With contributions from a variety of areas, including literature, philosophy, media, and policy-making, the book outlines the historical and philosophical development of posthumanism, and current key questions in bioethics. It generates a dialogue between bioethical approaches and the posthumanities, identifying ways in which posthumanist scholarship might be used to inform bioethical policy.

The book also looks more speculatively at the future, and the potential implications of technological developments which are only beginning to emerge. It uses posthumanism to look critically at the humanism underpinning de-extinction science, considers the ways in which technology is re-framing our social and political imaginaries, and asks about the identification of future posthumans.

Danielle Sands is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Introduction: Encounters between Bioethics and the Posthumanities

Danielle Sands

PART I: Bioethical Challenges

Therapy, Enhancement, and the Social Model of Disability
Michael Wee

Rethinking the Posthuman in Bioethics
David Boden and Sarah Chan

Gen-Ethics, Policy and the Posthumanities
Ruth Chadwick

PART II: Bioethics and Posthumanism in Dialogue

Questioning the Politics of Human Enhancement Technologies
Tom Hobson and Anna Roessing

Biohumanities
Stefan Herbrechter

Autonomous: Bioethics and/as Intellectual Property
Megen de Bruin-Molé

PART III: Exploring Posthuman Futures

A Posthumanist Critique of De-Extinction Science
Sarah Bezan

Posthumanism and the Bioethics of Moral Responsibility

Matt Hayler

The Filter Problem for Posthuman Bioethics: The Case of Hyperagency

David Roden

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-367-89720-2 / 0367897202
ISBN-13	978-0-367-89720-8 / 9780367897208
Zustand	Neuware