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Bioethics in the age of new media
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Bioethics in the age of new media

Author: Joanna Zylinska
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
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"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  Read more...
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Zylinska, Joanna, 1971-
Bioethics in the age of new media.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009
(OCoLC)607866886
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joanna Zylinska
ISBN: 9780262240567 0262240564
OCLC Number: 256768871
Description: xv, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Joanna Zylinska.
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An examination of ethical challenges that technology presents to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human and a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.  Read more...

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"Should we respect a carrot? This and many other thought-provoking questions are asked by Joanna Zylinska in this radical attempt at constructing a new ethics of life. Drawing from Foucault and Read more...

 
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