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Inquiring into Animal Enhancement: Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?

  • Simone Bateman
  • Jean Gayon
  • Sylvie Allouche
  • Jérôme Goffette
  • Michela Marzano
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Part of the Health, Technology and Society book series (HTE)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction
    Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano
    Pages 1-12
  3. Animal Enhancement: Technovisionary Paternalism and the Colonisation of Nature
    Arianna Ferrari
    Pages 13-33
  4. Improving Animals, Improving Humans: Transpositions and Comparisons
    Florence Burgat
    Pages 34-48
  5. Harming Some to Enhance Others
    Gary Comstock
    Pages 49-78
  6. Sex Hormones for Animals and Humans? Enhancement and the Public Expertise of Drugs in Post-war United States and France
    Jean-Paul Gaudillière
    Pages 79-108
  7. So Different and Yet So Similar: Comparing the Enhancement of Human and Animal Bodies in French Law
    Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier
    Pages 109-131
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 132-137
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About this book

Introduction

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.

Keywords

STS Health Sociology Technology Studies Animal enhancement Human enhancement Converging Technologies transhumanism human nature therapy-enhancement distinction future studies sociology of expertise animals colonisation nature Sex sociology

Editors and affiliations

  • Simone Bateman
    • 1
  • Jean Gayon
    • 2
  • Sylvie Allouche
    • 3
  • Jérôme Goffette
    • 4
  • Michela Marzano
    • 5
  1. 1.Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
  2. 2.Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance
  3. 3.Université Catholique de LyonFrance
  4. 4.Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1France
  5. 5.Université Paris DescartesFrance

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