Inquiring into Animal Enhancement
Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
Published on 1. September 2015
Book
Hardback
XIV, 137 pages
978-1-137-54246-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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)More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIV, 137 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-54246-5 (9781137542465)
DOI
10.1057/9781137542472
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Simone Bateman | Sylvie Allouche | Jean Gayon
Inquiring into Animal Enhancement
Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
E-Book
08/2015
Palgrave Pivot
€53.49
Available for download
Simone Bateman | Jean Gayon | Sylvie Allouche
Inquiring Into Animal Enhancement
Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Pivot
€64.19
The article will not be published
Persons
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
Content
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