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The Bioethics of Enhancement - Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,210
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The Bioethics of Enhancement - Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Hardcover): Melinda Hall

The Bioethics of Enhancement - Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Hardcover)

Melinda Hall

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In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. Hall provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished. This book will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and disability studies, along with those working in Continental philosophy (especially on Foucault).

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Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2016
Authors: Melinda Hall
Dimensions: 239 x 159 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3348-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
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Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
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LSN: 1-4985-3348-5
Barcode: 9781498533485

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