Bioethics and the posthumanities [electronic resource] / edited by Danielle Sands.

Introduction: Encounters between bioethics and the posthumanities / Danielle Sands -- Therapy, enhancement, and the social model of disability / Michael Wee -- Rethinking the posthuman in bioethics / David Boden and Sarah Chan -- Gen-ethics, policy and the posthumanities / Ruth Chadwick -- Questioning the politics of human augmentation technologies / Anna Roessing and Tom Hobson -- Biohumanities / Stefan Herbrechter -- Autonomous : bioethics and/as intellectual property / Megen de Bruin-Molé -- A posthumanist critique of de-extinction science / Sarah Bezan -- You can't take responsibility for yourself : humans as networks and posthumanistic culpability / Matt Hayler -- The filter problem for posthuman bioethics / David Roden.

"This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and explores the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity"-- Provided by publisher.