Bioethics and the Posthumanities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367897202 ISBN 13: 9780367897208

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367897202
• ISBN 13: 9780367897208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132
• Editor: Sands Danielle