Remaking the Human
Download or Read eBook Remaking the Human PDF written by Alvaro Jarrín and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Alvaro Jarrín |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2021-04-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781800730328 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1800730322 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Remaking the Human by : Alvaro Jarrín
Book excerpt: The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
