Transhumanism: Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification
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Transhumanism: Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification


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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.- Transhuman, Posthuman and Complex Humanness in the 21st Century.- Chapter 3. Pragmatisim and Transhumanism.- Chapter 4. Transhumanism as Nihilistic, Positive Pessimism.- Chapter 5. Overcoming (our) Nature: Transhumanism and the Redefinition of Human beings' Essence.- Chapter 6. Beyond Disintegration: Transhumanism and Enactivism.- Chapter 7. Mens Humana in Corpore Humano - Body-hacking the Human Experience.- Chapter 8. The Transhuman in the Workplace: Maximising Autonomy and Avoiding the Tyranny of Optimisation.- Chapter 9. Embodiment Diffracted: Queering and Cripping Morphological Freedom.- Chapter 10. Transhumanism - Agency Enhancement.- Chapter 11. Evolving the Natural-born Cyborg.- Chapter 12. Posthuman Ethics: The Priority of Ethical Over Ontological Status.- Chapter 13. Can Transhumanism be Post-Sexist?.- Chapter 14. Ectogenesis and the Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies for Space Exploration.
About the Author:

Dr. Emma Tumilty is feminist bioethicist and Assistant Professor& Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Her interests include research ethics, translational medicine, and innovation, as well as health justice and access. She sees biohacking and related activities such as open medicine, SynBio, biopunk practices, etc. as offering exciting opportunities for discussion how science and medicine are done and by who. Her interest in transhumanism is focused on those seeking to disrupt the status quo with human+technology exploration - the crip technoscience writers, feminist technomaterialists, afrofuturists, etc. who imagine different communities, morphological freedoms, and futures facilitated by technological integration. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research in Human Subjects Research and the journal: Progress in Community Health Partnerships, as well as the Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. She has published widely in research ethics, bioethics generally, and health service research.

Michele Battle-Fisher is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and an Adjunct Instructor at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine. She is the author of Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy and Public Health Ethics: Public Health and Private Illness (Springer), a 2016 Doody's Core Title selection. She is a systems science & public health researcher as well as bioethicist. Her scholarship ranges from public health/health disparities to systems science/complexity theory and their application to health. Her academic scholarship has been published in systems science, bioethics, humanities and communication studies peer-reviewed journals and academic outlets. She is a member of The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS). She is also a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute. She was a speaker at TEDxDartmouth 2018 where she discussed the "Paradigm Shift" of the Health Systems Science curriculum in health and clinical medicine. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center.



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783031143274
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 247
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3031143272
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 589 gr


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