Elyse Purcell

Engineering Perfection

Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Advances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope in medicine, but capitalism may incentivize the selection of traits for profit. Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being offers an opposing Marxist view, one that embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781793624130
• ISBN-10: 1793624135
• Artikelnr.: 68535623

Autorenporträt

Elyse Purcell is assistant professor of philosophy at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Genetic Technologies and My Existential Journey
Chapter 1: Solidarity and the Five Faces of Vulnerability
Chapter 2: Facing Aging and Illness: Oppression and the Exploitable Body
Chapter 3: Facing Death: Invulnerability and the "Cure"
Chapter 4: Facing Misfortune: Perfection, Designer Babies, and Imaginary
Appetites
Chapter 5: Facing Suffering: Capitalism, QALY, and Well-being
Bibliography