Inquiring into Animal Enhancement: Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement? [recurso electrónico

Can the age-old practices of animal selection and breeding and the more recent biotechnological interventions on animals, far more intrusive and systematic than any present form of human enhancement, enlighten us as to the future of enhancement practices? This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans. The extreme ambiguity of the claim that animals are being enhanced, the driving goals and strategies of third-party interests, but also the similarity of the substances and techniques used on humans and animals, suggest that human enhancement practices may be just as tainted by equivocal goals and strategies as equivalent practices with animals Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-12 Animal Enhancement: Technovisionary Paternalism and the Colonisation of Nature....Pages 13-33 Improving Animals, Improving Humans: Transpositions and Comparisons....Pages 34-48 Harming Some to Enhance Others....Pages 49-78 Sex Hormones for Animals and Humans? Enhancement and the Public Expertise of Drugs in Post-war United States and France....Pages 79-108 So Different and Yet So Similar: Comparing the Enhancement of Human and Animal Bodies in French Law....Pages 109-131 Back Matter....Pages 132-137