'Crafting humans' - and its corollary human enhancement - is a
contested topic, both in medical sciences and the humanities. With
continuing advances in science and technology, scientists and the
general public alike are aware that the basic foundations of the
human condition are now at stake. This volume contributes to this
growing body of work. It offers insights into some of the
reflections and imaginaries that have inspired and legitimated both
theoretical and practical programmes for 'crafting' humans, ranging
from the religious/spiritualist and the philosophical/cultural to
the secular and the scientific/scientistic; from the religious and
mystical quest for human perfection to the biopolitical eugenic
state of the twentieth century and current theories of human
enhancement. This volume discusses these topics in a synchronized
way, as interrelated variants of the most central story in history,
that of human perfectibility.
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