Bioenhancement technologies and the vulnerable body : a theological engagement / Devan Stahl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stahl, Devan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transhumanism.

Transhumanism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Medicine.

Performance technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Waco : Baylor University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Examines the promises and perils of bioenhancement technologies for those most vulnerable to health disparities: persons with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, and women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Fleshly Transhumanism : a positive account of body modification and body enhancement / Adam Pryor

Groaning of creation : technological interventions in creaturely suffering / J. Jeanine Thweatt

Tree of life : Aquinas, disability and transhumanism / Miguel J. Romero / Jason T. Eberl

Onotology

where it comes in an why it matters : a conversation between friends / Jonathan Tran / Jeffrey P. Bishop

Transfiguring the vulnerability of suffering / Kimbell Kornu

This is my body : faith communities as sites of transfiguring vulnerability / Wylin D. Wilson

Lame to walk and the deaf fear : why it pays for surveillance capitalism to exploit the disabled / Brian Brock

Christian transhumanism in context : the relevance of race / Terri Laws

Disability justice, bioenhancement and the eschatological imagination / Devan Stahl

Epilogue: Enhancing bodies : from what to what?

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Bioenhancement technologies and the vulnerable body

ISBN:

9781481318280