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How we dispose of our rubbish, choose the foods we buy, enjoy art,
relate to our families, and think about ourselves are just a few of
the ways that ideas about nature shape our everyday ethical
decisions. Nature and 'natural facts' have long been used to make
sense of why we act a certain way. Nature is a concept with great
power: when we describe something as 'natural' or 'unnatural', it
has a moral force and political consequences. We see this in moral
panics about genetically modified foods, the spread of
government-enforced waste recycling schemes, concerns about
assisted reproductive technologies. Our ideas about what is natural
shape our ethical thinking, in terms of how people live (or want to
live) their lives, but also in guiding our sense of morality,
justice and truth. The idea of naturalness is essential to grasping
Anglo-American cultures. Throughout history and in different
places, nature has had different forms, meanings, and moral
valences. It is a knowable fact, but at the same time almost a
divine principle that is ultimately unfathomable. Yet with the rise
of new technologies, there is increasing uncertainty about what we
claim to be natural, who we are, how we are related to each other,
and how we should live. This book examines the how ideas about
nature and ethics overlap and separate across cultural, species,
geographic, and moral boundaries. It compares the varied ways in
which nature and ideas of naturalness pervade all aspects of
people's lives, from family relationships, to the production and
consumption of food, to ideas about scientific truth. In a world of
increasing uncertainty, nature remains a powerful concept: the
ultimate reference point, invested with profound moral authority to
guide our ethical behaviour. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Ethnos.
>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both
high- and low-tech. These technologies of reproduction are not
experienced in isolation by most of the people who use them.
However clinical, public health and social scientific research
often reflects a parcelling out of reproduction into specialist
areas of biomedical intervention. Studies tend to be bound to
specific physiological events, technologies (particularly those
that are more obviously technical or 'modern') and people - namely
cis, heterosexual, white, middle-class women. Yet, with the
ever-expanding horizon of reproductive technologies and the rapid
development of the fertility industry, the reality is that many
individuals will engage with more than one such technology at some
point in their life. >Technologies of Reproduction Across the
Lifecourse presents dialogue between scholars on different
reproductive technologies not only from a comparative empirical
perspective, arguing that operating in disciplinary silos and
working from narrow ideas about RTs and their meanings can put
reproductive studies in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing,
the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.
How we dispose of our rubbish, choose the foods we buy, enjoy art,
relate to our families, and think about ourselves are just a few of
the ways that ideas about nature shape our everyday ethical
decisions. Nature and 'natural facts' have long been used to make
sense of why we act a certain way. Nature is a concept with great
power: when we describe something as 'natural' or 'unnatural', it
has a moral force and political consequences. We see this in moral
panics about genetically modified foods, the spread of
government-enforced waste recycling schemes, concerns about
assisted reproductive technologies. Our ideas about what is natural
shape our ethical thinking, in terms of how people live (or want to
live) their lives, but also in guiding our sense of morality,
justice and truth. The idea of naturalness is essential to grasping
Anglo-American cultures. Throughout history and in different
places, nature has had different forms, meanings, and moral
valences. It is a knowable fact, but at the same time almost a
divine principle that is ultimately unfathomable. Yet with the rise
of new technologies, there is increasing uncertainty about what we
claim to be natural, who we are, how we are related to each other,
and how we should live. This book examines the how ideas about
nature and ethics overlap and separate across cultural, species,
geographic, and moral boundaries. It compares the varied ways in
which nature and ideas of naturalness pervade all aspects of
people's lives, from family relationships, to the production and
consumption of food, to ideas about scientific truth. In a world of
increasing uncertainty, nature remains a powerful concept: the
ultimate reference point, invested with profound moral authority to
guide our ethical behaviour. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Ethnos.
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