Description
Book SynopsisWhereas the public-facing proponents of bioenhancements tend to come from privileged positions in society,
Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body seeks to analyse the nuances of bioenhancement from the perspective of those who are often marginalized in bioethical discussions.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Fleshly Transhumanism: A Positive Account of Body Modification and Body Enhancement - Adam Pryor
- 2. The Groaning of Creation: Technological Interventions in Creaturely Suffering - J. Jeanine Thweatt
- 3. The Tree of Life: Aquinas, Disability, and Transhumanism - Miguel J. Romero and Jason T. Eberl
- 4. Ontology--Where It Comes in and How It Matters: A Conversation Between Friends - Jonathan Tran and Jeffrey P. Bishop
- 5. Transfiguring the Vulnerability of Suffering - Kimbell Kornu
- 6. This is My Body: Faith Communities as Sites of Transfiguring Vulnerability - Wylin D. Wilson
- 7. The Lame to Walk and the Deaf Hear: Why It Pays for Surveillance Capitalism to Exploit the Disabled - Brian Brock
- 8. Christian Transhumanism in Context: The Relevance of Race
Terri Laws - 9. Disability Justice, Bioenhancement and the Eschatological Imagination - Devan Stahl
- Epilogue Enhancing Bodies: From What to What?
