Introduction: Enhancement, Disability, and Biopolitics Chapter 1: Dragon Slayers: Exploring Transhumanism Chapter 2: Rethinking Disability: Dodging Definitions, Muddying Models Chapter 3: Rethinking Enhancement: A Genealogical Approach Chapter 4: Choosing, For Choice's Sake: A Case Study Chapter 5: Disability as/at Risk: The Biopolitics of Disability Conclusion: Rethinking the Future
Melinda C. Hall is assistant professor of philosophy at Stetson University.
In The Bioethics of Enhancement, Melinda Hall powerfully argues
that disability underpins debates over genetic enhancement, and in
turn these debates anchor contemporary bioethics, making
disability, and questions over which lives are worth living, the
fulcrum of bioethics. Bringing Michel Foucault's notion of biopower
to bear on the transhumanist discourses of Julian Savulescu and
Nick Bostrom (among others) this book is a game changer, and a must
read for anyone interested in enhancement literature, disability
studies, or bioethics more generally. -- Kelly Oliver, W. Alton
Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Melinda Hall's The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism,
Disability, and Biopolitics is both a unique contribution to
philosophy of disability and a bold intervention into philosophical
bioethics. It is also an important addition to the growing body of
work that uses Foucault to interrogate the role that academic
philosophy and bioethics play in the subordination of disabled
people. The innovative arguments that Hall persuasively advances
throughout the book demonstrate the prescience of Foucault's
insights and the relevance of his claims for critical philosophical
analyses of disability, as well as show how critical scholarship on
disability can expand our understanding of Foucault's oeuvre. --
Shelley Tremain, editor of Foucault and the Government of
Disability
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