Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body (eBook)

A Theological Engagement

Devan Stahl (Herausgeber)

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2023
252 Seiten
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-1829-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The field of biomedical technology has experienced rapid growth in recent years. New technologies promise to diagnose, treat, and prevent human diseases. Increasingly, however, the ability of these technologies to "enhance" normal human functioning beyond what is necessary to restore or sustain health has raised considerable debate about the proper limits of biotechnology. Whereas the public-facing proponents of bioenhancements tend to come from privileged positions in society, Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body seeks to analyze the nuances of bioenhancement from the perspective of those who are often marginalized in bioethical discussions.

Any moral assessment of technology must consider its effects on all people, principally those who have not benefited equally from technological advancements. From the premise that minority perspectives yield new insights into biomedical enhancements, this volume centers the bodies of persons who are vulnerable to health disparities--particularly persons with disabilities and persons of color. Contributors critically examine bioenhancement technologies with two key questions in mind: What does it mean to be human? and What does it mean to be vulnerable? Each chapter uses distinct Christian theological methods and ontological suppositions to reflect on the distinctiveness of human creatureliness in relation to technology and what difference bioenhancement might make for our conceptions of vulnerability. Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body is aimed primarily at Christian scholars and graduate students already conversant in bioethics but will also appeal to contextual theologians and others not well-versed in these debates.

Autor

Devan Stahl is Associate Professor of Religion at Baylor University.

Inhalt

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?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2023
• Verlagsort: Waco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• Schlagworte: Bioethics, biotechnology, bioenhancement. Christian ethics, theological ethics, theology and medicine, theology and technology, transhumanism, theological anthropology, disability studies, disability theology
• ISBN-10: 1-4813-1829-2 / 1481318292
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-1829-7 / 9781481318297