Reconsidering extinction in terms of the history of global bioethics. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stan Booth and Chris Mounsey.
• Editors: (Of University of Winchester), Booth, Stan; Mounsey, Chris, 1959-
• Contents: Introduction: Is Extinction a Thing of the Past? 1 STAN BOOTH PART I Delineating Contexts—Extinction 9 1 “Enough to Change a Planet”: Feeling Extinction in Contemporary Literature 11 HEATHER J. HICKS 2 This Selfish Ape 37 NICHOLAS P. MONEY 3 The Extinction of Intellectual Disability: An Enlightenment Project from Locke to Freud 50 SIMON JARRETT 4 “Civilizing the ‘Redman’…”: John Locke, Adam Smith, and Social Darwinist Perceptions of Religion, Land-Use, and Progress as Policy to Make Extinct the Traditional Lifeways of North American Indian Peoples 68 CHRISTINA WELCH PART II Applying Contexts—Extinction Does Not Lead to an “End” 95 5 “Strong in Zeal but Impotent in Head”: British Responses to the Cattle Plagues of the Eighteenth Century 97 CHRIS MOUNSEY 6 “They Are All Dead, Except a Few”: Social Complications and Royal Reactions to Death in England, 1348–1350 112 WENDY J. TURNER 7 The Right to a Cure: The Bioethics of Variolation 136 STAN BOOTH PART III Creating “New” Contexts—Evolution 155 8 Tinkering with Eden: The Lure and Myth of Free-Willed Nature 157 IAN D. ROTHERHAM 9 Whose Utopia?: The Complexity of Incorporating Diverse Ethical Views Within Nature Governance Frameworks 184 JOANNA MILLER SMALLWOOD 10 For An Actional Ethics: Making Better Sense of Science 205 STEPHEN J. COWLEY 11 The Descent of Language: Biology, Linguistic Evolution, and Language Extinction 222 ERIC LACEY
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 576.84; Extinction (Biology) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Bioethics -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000380279; 9781000380262; 9781003107132
• Related ISBNs: 9780367619329
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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