This volume continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social sciences, to history, to sustainability studies, to linguistics.
This volume continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social sciences, to history, to sustainability studies, to linguistics.
Stan Booth is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Winchester. Chris Mounsey is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Cultural Studies at the University of Winchester.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Is Extinction a Thing of the Past? 1 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
Introduction: Is Extinction a Thing of the Past? 1 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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