Nature and Ethics Across Geographical, Rhetorical and Human Borders

Informationen zum Autor Katharine Dow is a senior research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her main research interest is the ethical dilemmas and questions provoked by reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies Victoria Boydell is an Affiliated Scholar in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her main research interest is social and cultural dynamics around contraceptive technologies. Zusammenfassung This book examines how ideas about nature and ethics overlap and separate across cultural, species, geographic, and moral boundaries. It compares the ways in which nature and ideas of naturalness pervade all aspects of people’s lives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Nature and Ethics Across Geographical, Rhetorical and Human Borders 1. ‘Natural’ Breastfeeding in Comparative Perspective: Feminism, Morality, and Adaptive Accountability 2. The Ethics of Patenting and Genetically Engineering the Relative Haloa 3. Snared: Ethics and Nature in Animal Protection 4. ‘A Nine-Month Head-Start’: The Maternal Bond and Surrogacy 5. A Response to the Issues Raised in the Special Edition of Ethnos

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• Authors: Katharine (University of Cambridge Dow, Katharine Boydell Dow
• Assisted by: Victoria Boydell (Editor), Katharine Dow (Editor), Dow Katharine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138571907
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57190-7
• No. of pages: 118
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology