Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3847100599 ISBN 13 : 9783847100591

Editeur : V&R unipress GmbH, 2013

Synopsis

Understanding the human – a form of moral and religious introspection and historical responsibility and a quest for scientific knowledge and adaptability to technological progressCrafting humans and its corollary human enhancement is a contested topic, both in medical sciences and the humanities. With continuing advances in science and technology, scientists and the general public alike are aware that the basic foundations of the human condition are now at stake. This volume contributes to this growing body of work. It offers insights into some of the reflections and imaginaries that have inspired and legitimated both theoretical and practical programmes for crafting humans, ranging from the religious/spiritualist and the philosophical/cultural to the secular and the scientific/scientistic; from the religious and mystical quest for human perfection to the biopolitical eugenic state of the twentieth century and current theories of human enhancement. This volume discusses these topics in a synchronized way, as interrelated variants of the most central story in history, that of human perfectibility.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr. Marius Turda is Reader in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine, Oxford Brookes University, and Director of the Cantemir Institute, at the University of Oxford. His current areas of research are mainly history of ideas and medicine, with a particular focus on eugenics, biopolitics, and race.

Prof Dr Chun-chieh Huang is Distinguished Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Jörn Rüsen ist Senior Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Professor emeritus der Universität Witten/Herdecke. Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit an den Universitäten Braunschweig, Berlin (FU), Bochum, Bielefeld, Witten/Herdecke. 1994 bis 1997 geschäftsführender Direktor des Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld, 1997 bis 2007 Präsident/Direktor des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen. Ehrenpromotionen der Universitäten Lund, Brasilia und Curitiba.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: V&R unipress GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3847100599
• ISBN 13: 9783847100591
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 197
• Éditeur: Turda Dr. Marius
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible