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Bioethics in the age of new media / Joanna Zylinska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zylinska, Joanna, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioethics.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.
- Contents:
- Bioethics: a critical introduction
- A different history of bioethics : the cybernetic connection
- Biopolitics today : the ubiquitous practice of life management
- Of swans and ugly ducklings : imagining perfection in makeover culture
- The secret of life : bioethics between corporeal and corporate obligations
- Green bunnies and speaking ears : the ethics of bioart.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26520-6
- 9786612240621
- 1-282-24062-5
- 0-262-25514-6
- OCLC:
- 648101850
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612240621
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