Human Nature In An Age Of Biotechnology

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New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately address the question of what it means to be human in an age of biotechnology. Not because they belong to rival political camps, but because they are grounded in a humanist ontology that presupposes a radical separation between human subjects and technological objects. The volume offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches—two humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, to new configurations of biopower, questioning what role technology plays in defining the boundaries of the human, the subject and nature for each. Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel perspective, mediated posthumanism, that brings together insights in the philosophy of technology, the sociology of biomedicine, and Michel Foucault’s work on ethical subject constitution. In this framework, technology is neither a neutral tool nor a force that alienates humanity from itself, but something that is always already part of the experience of being human, and subjectivity is viewed as an emergent property that is constantly being shaped and transformed by its engagements with biotechnologies. Mediated posthumanism becomes a tool for identifying novel ethical modes of human experience that are richer and more multifaceted than current posthumanist perspectives allow for. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars working on ethics and technology, philosophy of technology, poststructuralism, technology and the body, and medical ethics.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Tamar Sharon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2013-10-11
File : 249 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789400775541


Biotechnology Human Nature And Christian Ethics

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It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Gerald McKenny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2018-01-19
File : 237 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108422802


Biotechnology

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Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

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Genre : Science
Author : Sean D. Sutton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release : 2009-07-02
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1438426860


Critical Neuroscience

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Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. This text’s original, interdisciplinary approach explores the creative potential for engaging experimental neuroscience with social studies of neuroscience while furthering the dialogue between neuroscience and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Critical Neuroscience transcends traditional skepticism, introducing novel ideas about ‘how to be critical’ in and about science.

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Suparna Choudhury
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2016-08-08
File : 429 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781119237891


Creating Human Nature

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Introduces the new field of 'political bioethics,' focusing on the peculiarly political questions posed by human genetic engineering.

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Genre : Law
Author : Benjamin Gregg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2022-10-20
File : 275 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108841160


Food And Agricultural Biotechnology In Ethical Perspective

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This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson’s analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective in 1997 and 2007, were the first comprehensive philosophical studies of genetic engineering applied to food systems. The book is structured with chapter length treatments of risk in four categories: food safety, to animals, to the environment and socio-economic risks. These chapters are preceded by two chapters providing orientation to the uses of gene technology in food and agriculture, and to the goals, methods and background assumptions of technological ethics. There is also a chapter covering all four types of risk as applied to the first US technology, recombinant bovine somatotropin. The last four chapters take up 1) intellectual property debates, 2) religious, metaphysical and “intrinsic” objections to biotechnology, 3) issues in risk and trust and 4) a review of ethical issues in synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives, the three key technologies that have emerged since the book was last revised.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2020-11-09
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030612146


Social And Legal Theory In The Age Of Decoloniality

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Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence – portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited. Postulating the theory of global jurisprudential apartheid, the book accounts for biases in various legal systems, norms, values and conventions that bind Africans while affording impunity to Western states. Drawing on contemporary notions of animism, transhumanism, posthumanism and science and technology studies, the book critically interrogates the possibility of a jurisprudence of anticipation which is attentive to the emergent New World Order that engineers ‘human beings to become nonhumans’ while ‘nonhumans become humans’. Connecting discourses on decoloniality with jurisprudence in the areas of family law, environment, indigenisation, property, migration, constitutionalism, employment and labour law, commercial law and Ubuntu, the book also juggles with emergent issues around Earth Jurisprudence, ecocentrism, wild law, rights of nature, Earth Court and Earth Tribunal. Arguing for decoloniality that attends to global jurisprudential apartheid., this tome is handy for legal scholars and practitioners, social scientists, civil society organisations, policy makers and researchers interested in transformation, decoloniality and Pan-Africanism.

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Genre : Law
Author : Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Release : 2018-06-08
File : 509 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789956550128


New Materialism And Theology

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Juxtaposing theological inquiry with the philosophical movement of new materialism, Sam Mickey reflects on questions of human embodiment, nonhuman agency, technological innovation, and possible futures for humankind. New Materialism and Theology opens several pathways for thinking about what really matters.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Sam Mickey
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2022-05-16
File : 88 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004520301


Human Dignity In The Biotech Century

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Editors Charles W. Colson and Nigel M. de S. Cameron, along with a panel of expert contributors address in twelve essays the watershed legal and ethical challenges before us in twenty-first century biotechnology: stem cell research, cloning, gene therapy, pharmacogenomics, cybernetics, abortion and more.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Charles W. Colson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Release : 2004-07-07
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0830827838


Criminalising Contagion

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A multidisciplinary and international examination of the developing debates around using the criminal law to sanction disease transmission.

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Genre : Law
Author : Catherine Stanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2016-06-09
File : 261 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107091825