
Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics
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Chris Mounsey is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Cultural Studies at the University of Winchester.
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STAN BOOTH
PART I
Delineating Contexts-Extinction 9
1 "Enough to Change a Planet": Feeling Extinction in Contemporary Literature 11
HEATHER J. HICKS
2 This Selfish Ape 37
NICHOLAS P. MONEY
3 The Extinction of Intellectual Disability: An Enlightenment Project from Locke to Freud 50
SIMON JARRETT
4 "Civilizing the 'Redman'...": John Locke, Adam Smith, and Social Darwinist Perceptions of Religion, Land-Use, and Progress as Policy to Make Extinct the Traditional Lifeways of North American Indian Peoples 68
CHRISTINA WELCH
PART II
Applying Contexts-Extinction Does Not Lead to an "End" 95
5 "Strong in Zeal but Impotent in Head": British Responses to the Cattle Plagues of the Eighteenth Century 97
CHRIS MOUNSEY
6 "They Are All Dead, Except a Few": Social Complications and Royal Reactions to Death in England, 1348-1350 112
WENDY J. TURNER
7 The Right to a Cure: The Bioethics of Variolation 136
STAN BOOTH
PART III
Creating "New" Contexts-Evolution 155
8 Tinkering with Eden: The Lure and Myth of Free-Willed Nature 157
IAN D. ROTHERHAM
9 Whose Utopia?: The Complexity of Incorporating Diverse Ethical Views Within Nature Governance Frameworks 184
JOANNA MILLER SMALLWOOD
10 For An Actional Ethics: Making Better Sense of Science 205
STEPHEN J. COWLEY
11 The Descent of Language: Biology, Linguistic Evolution, and Language Extinction 222
ERIC LACEY
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