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