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Bioethics of Enhancement : Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics by Melinda Hall (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-101498533507
ISBN-139781498533508
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038421802
Product Key Features
Number of Pages206 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBioethics of Enhancement : Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
SubjectEthics, Mind & Body, People with Disabilities, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Allied Health Services / Medical Technology
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science, Medical
AuthorMelinda Hall
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.9 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
ReviewsMelinda Hall's The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics is both a unique contribution to philosophy of disability and a bold intervention into philosophical bioethics. It is also an important addition to the growing body of work that uses Foucault to interrogate the role that academic philosophy and bioethics play in the subordination of disabled people. The innovative arguments that Hall persuasively advances throughout the book demonstrate the prescience of Foucault's insights and the relevance of his claims for critical philosophical analyses of disability, as well as show how critical scholarship on disability can expand our understanding of Foucault's oeuvre., In The Bioethics of Enhancement, Melinda Hall powerfully argues that disability underpins debates over genetic enhancement, and in turn these debates anchor contemporary bioethics, making disability, and questions over which lives are worth living, the fulcrum of bioethics. Bringing Michel Foucault's notion of biopower to bear on the transhumanist discourses of Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom (among others) this book is a game changer, and a must read for anyone interested in enhancement literature, disability studies, or bioethics more generally.
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Table Of ContentIntroduction: Enhancement, Disability, and Biopolitics Chapter 1: Dragon Slayers: Exploring Transhumanism Chapter 2: Rethinking Disability: Dodging Definitions, Muddying ModelsChapter 3: Rethinking Enhancement: A Genealogical ApproachChapter 4: Choosing, For Choice's Sake: A Case StudyChapter 5: Disability as/at Risk: The Biopolitics of DisabilityConclusion: Rethinking the Future
SynopsisThis book is a critical intervention into debate over human enhancement and engages bioethics, disability studies, and Michel Foucault. Melinda Hall employs a biopolitical framework to argue that transhumanist thinkers present diminished images of the good life and seriously devalue disabled lives by linking disability with risk and death., 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).
LC Classification NumberRA418.5.M4
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