Bioethics and the Posthumanities

ISBN-13: 9781032263670 / Miękka / 2023 / 132 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Encounters between Bioethics and the Posthumanities

Danielle Sands

PART I: Bioethical Challenges

1. Therapy, Enhancement, and the Social Model of Disability

Michael Wee

2. Rethinking the Posthuman in Bioethics

David Boden and Sarah Chan

3. Gen-Ethics, Policy and the Posthumanities　

Ruth Chadwick


PART II: Bioethics and Posthumanism in Dialogue

4. Questioning the Politics of Human Enhancement Technologies

Tom Hobson and Anna Roessing

5. Biohumanities

Stefan Herbrechter

6. Autonomous: Bioethics and/as Intellectual Property

Megen de Bruin-Molé

PART III: Exploring Posthuman Futures

7. A Posthumanist Critique of De-Extinction Science

Sarah Bezan

8. Posthumanism and the Bioethics of Moral Responsibility
   
   Matt Hayler
   
9. The Filter Problem for Posthuman Bioethics: The Case of Hyperagency

          David Roden

O autorze

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