Nature and Ethics Across Geographical, Rhetorical and Human Borders

Herausgeber: Dow, Katharine; Boydell, Victoria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how ideas about nature and ethics overlap and separate across cultural, species, geographic, and moral boundaries. It compares the ways in which nature and ideas of naturalness pervade all aspects of people's lives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9780367593124
• ISBN-10: 0367593122
• Artikelnr.: 69890716

Autorenporträt

Katharine Dow is a senior research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her main research interest is the ethical dilemmas and questions provoked by reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies Victoria Boydell is an Affiliated Scholar in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her main research interest is social and cultural dynamics around contraceptive technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Nature and Ethics Across Geographical, Rhetorical and Human
Borders 1. 'Natural' Breastfeeding in Comparative Perspective: Feminism,
Morality, and Adaptive Accountability 2. The Ethics of Patenting and
Genetically Engineering the Relative H¿loa 3. Snared: Ethics and Nature in
Animal Protection 4. 'A Nine-Month Head-Start': The Maternal Bond and
Surrogacy 5. A Response to the Issues Raised in the Special Edition of
Ethnos