Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Booth, Stan; Mounsey, Chris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000380262
• Artikelnr.: 61272824

Autorenporträt

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