Leonardos Choice Genetic Technologies and Animals /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gigliotti, Carol. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Genetic engineering.; Ethics.; Science > Philosophy.; Humanities.; Philosophy.; Genetic Engineering.; Interdisciplinary Studies.; Humanities, general.; Philosophy of Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2479-4

Leonardos Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals is an edited collection of twelve essays and one dialogue focusing on the profound affect the use of animals in biotechnology is having on both humans and other species. Communicating crucial understandings of the integrated nature of the human and...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: 1. Genetic Science, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy
• 2. Darwins Progeny: Eugenics, genetics and animal rights
• 3. Intimate Strife: The unbearable intimacy of human/animal relations
• Part II: 4. Leonardos Choice: The ethics of artists working with genetic technologies
• 5. We Have Always Been Transgenic: A dialogue
• 6. Negotiating the Hybrid: Art, theory and genetic technologies
• 7. Meddling with Medusa: On genetic manipulation, art and animals
• 8. Transgenic Bioart, Animals, and the Law. Part III
• 9. Dis/integrating Animals: Ethical dimensions of the genetic engineering of animals for human consumption
• 10. The Call of the Other 0.1%: Genetic aesthetics and the new Moreaus
• 11. Landseers Ethics: The campaign to end cosmetic surgery on dogs in Australasia
• 12. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
• 13. Ending Extinction: The quagga, the thylacine, and the smart human .