Screen LibraryBioethics in the age of new media
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 230 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780262240567 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262240564 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B82 |
| CLC: |
B82-057 R-052 |
| Call Number: | B82-057/Z99 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-223) and index. Bioethics: a critical introduction -- A different history of bioethics : the cybernetic connection -- Biopolitics today : the ubiquitous practice of life management -- Of swans and ugly ducklings : imagining perfection in makeover culture -- The secret of life : bioethics between corporeal and corporate obligations -- Green bunnies and speaking ears : the ethics of bioart. "Bioethical dilemmas - including those over genetic screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortion - have been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among the public, and in professional and academic communities. But the paramount bioethical issue in an age of digital technology and new media, Joanna Zylinska argues, is the transformation of the very notion of life. In this provocative book, Zylinska examines many of the ethical challenges that technology poses to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human. In doing so, she goes beyond the traditional understanding of bioethics as a |