Bioethics and the Posthumanities

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-89720-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sands, Danielle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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