Leonardo’s Choice Genetic Technologies and Animals /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gigliotti, Carol (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Genetic engineering.; Ethics.; Philosophy and science.; Genetic Engineering.; Philosophy of Science.

Leonardo’s 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:

• I
• Genetic Science, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy
• Darwin’s Progeny: Eugenics, Genetics and Animal Rights
• Intimate Strife: The Unbearable Intimacy of Human-Animal Relations
• II
• Leonardo’s Choice: The Ethics of Artists Working with Genetic Technologies
• We Have Always Been Transgenic: A Dialogue
• Negotiating the Hybrid: Art, Theory and Genetic Technologies
• Meddling with Medusa: On Genetic Manipulation, Art and Animals
• Transgenic Bioart, Animals, and the Law
• III
• Dis/Integrating Animals: Ethical Dimensions of the Genetic Engineering of Animals for Human Consumption
• The Call of the Other 0.1%: Genetic Aesthetics and the New Moreaus
• Landseer’s Ethics: The Campaign to End “Cosmetic Surgery” on Dogs in Australasia
• Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
• Ending Extinction: The Quagga, the Thylacine, and the “Smart Human”.