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Inquiring Into Animal Enhancement
Model Or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?

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Zusatztext "Contributions to the volume expose and challenge a number of assumptions in unpacking and interrogating the notion of enhancement. ? those interested in the direction of theory and debate about notions of enhancement! the animal question ? and broader societal implications will find contributions in this volume to be useful. ? This volume provides an interesting contribution to what will continue to be a substantive debate." (Colin Salter! Nanoethics! Vol. 10! 2016) Informationen zum Autor Sylvie Allouche, Université Catholique de Lyon, France Simone Bateman, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France Florence Burgat, National Institute of Agronomic Research, France Gary Comstock, North Carolina State University, USA Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier, National Centre for Scientific Research, France Arianna Ferrari, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France Jean Gayon, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Jérôme Goffette, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France Michela Marzano, Université Paris Descartes, France Klappentext This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans. Zusammenfassung This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals! clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices! as they concern both animals and humans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette and Michela Marzano 1. Animal Enhancement: Technovisionary Paternalism and the Colonisation of Nature; Arianna Ferrari 2. Improving Animals, Improving Humans: Transpositions and Comparisons; Florence Burgat 3. Harming Some to Enhance Others; Gary Comstock 4. Sex Hormones for Humans and Animals? Enhancement and the Public Expertise of Drugs in Post-War United States and France; Jean-Paul Gaudillière 5. So Different and Yet So Similar: Comparing the Enhancement of Human and Animal Bodies in French law; Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier ...

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Assisted by Simone Bateman (Editor), Jean Gayon (Editor), Sylvie Allouche (Editor), Michela Marzano (Editor), Jérôme Goffette (Editor), Jerome Goffette (Editor), Sylvi Allouche (Editor), Jean Gayon et al (Editor)
Authors Simone Gayon Bateman
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 30.09.2015
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology
 
EAN 9781137542465
ISBN 978-1-137-54246-5
Pages 151
 
Series Health, Technology and Society
Health, Technology and Society
Subjects Physik, Soziologie, Biotechnologie, Medizinsoziologie, C, Biowissenschaften, allgemein, EDUCATION / General, Sociology, Ethics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Life Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Science, REFERENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, biotechnology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sociology, general, Life sciences: general issues, Impact of science & technology on society, Teaching of a specific subject, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Life Sciences, general, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Science—Social aspects, Education in Physics, Social medicine, Medical Sociology
 

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