Bioethics and the Posthumanities

This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and considers the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

With contributions from a variety of areas, including literature, philosophy, media, and policy-making, the book outlines the historical and philosophical development of posthumanism, and current key questions in bioethics. It generates a dialogue between bioethical approaches and the posthumanities, identifying ways in which posthumanist scholarship might be used to inform bioethical policy.

The book also looks more speculatively at the future, and the potential implications of technological developments which are only beginning to emerge. It uses posthumanism to look critically at the humanism underpinning de-extinction science, considers the ways in which technology is re-framing our social and political imaginaries, and asks about the identification of future posthumans.

List of contents

Introduction: Encounters between Bioethics and the Posthumanities
Danielle Sands

PART I: Bioethical Challenges

1. Therapy, Enhancement, and the Social Model of Disability

Michael Wee



2. Rethinking the Posthuman in Bioethics

David Boden and Sarah Chan



3. Gen-Ethics, Policy and the Posthumanities

Ruth Chadwick

PART II: Bioethics and Posthumanism in Dialogue


4. Questioning the Politics of Human Enhancement Technologies
Tom Hobson and Anna Roessing

5. Biohumanities

Stefan Herbrechter



6. Autonomous: Bioethics and/as Intellectual Property

Megen de Bruin-Molé

PART III: Exploring Posthuman Futures


7. A Posthumanist Critique of De-Extinction Science
Sarah Bezan

8. Posthumanism and the Bioethics of Moral Responsibility
   
   Matt Hayler
   
9. The Filter Problem for Posthuman Bioethics: The Case of Hyperagency

          David Roden

About the author

Danielle Sands is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Summary

This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and explores the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

Report

'The turn of the twenty-first century and the subsequent continuous emergence of the implications of technological advancement have brought a crisis into the heart of the humanities. . . . Beyond merely philosophizing, Danielle Sands seeks to explore the practical applications of posthuman theory by connecting it with the field of bioethics. . . . The ultimate goal is not simply to revolutionize health studies but to facilitate social justice and equality; now and in our posthuman future.'
Stavroula Anastasia Katsorchi, Journal of Posthumanism

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Sands
• Assisted by: Danielle Sands (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032263670
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226367-0
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; MEDICAL / Ethics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct