
Crafting Humans
From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond
Marius Turda(Editor)
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2013
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Hardback
197 pages
978-3-8471-0059-1 (ISBN)
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Description
'Crafting humans' - and its corollary human enhancement - is a contested topic, both in medical sciences and the humanities. With continuing advances in science and technology, scientists and the general public alike are aware that the basic foundations of the human condition are now at stake. This volume contributes to this growing body of work. It offers insights into some of the reflections and imaginaries that have inspired and legitimated both theoretical and practical programmes for 'crafting' humans, ranging from the religious/spiritualist and the philosophical/cultural to the secular and the scientific/scientistic; from the religious and mystical quest for human perfection to the biopolitical eugenic state of the twentieth century, and current theories of human enhancement. This volume discusses these topics in a synchronized way, as interrelated variants of the most central story in history, that of human perfectibility.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Publishing group
V&R unipress
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.3 cm
Thickness: 1.8 cm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8471-0059-1 (9783847100591)
DOI
10.14220/9783847100591
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Persons
Editor
Dr. Marius Turda is Reader in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine, Oxford Brookes University, and Director of the Cantemir Institute, at the University of Oxford. His current areas of research are mainly history of ideas and medicine, with a particular focus on eugenics, biopolitics, and race.
Series Editor
Prof Dr Chun-chieh Huang is Distinguished Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Jörn Rüsen ist Senior Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Professor emeritus der Universität Witten/Herdecke. Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit an den Universitäten Braunschweig, Berlin (FU), Bochum, Bielefeld, Witten/Herdecke. 1994 bis 1997 geschäftsführender Direktor des Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld, 1997 bis 2007 Präsident/Direktor des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen. Ehrenpromotionen der Universitäten Lund, Brasilia und Curitiba.
ISNI: 0000 0001 2283 9534
ISNI: 0000 0001 2283 9534