Bioethics in the Age of New Media

by Joanna Zylinska and Professor of New Media and Communications Joanna Zylinska

An examination of ethical challenges that technology presents to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human and a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.

Bioethical dilemmas--including those over genetic screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortion--have been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among the public, and in professional and academic communities. But the paramount bioethical issue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262240564
• ISBN13: 9780262240567
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher