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BL
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871732
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Posthumanism : : an Introductory Handbook.
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| Publication Statement
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Farmington Hills :: Cengage Gale,, 2018.
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Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks
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Posthumanism Ser.
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1 online resource (476 pages)
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0028665163
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: 9780028665160
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| Notes
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Human/animal.
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| Contents
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COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; EDITORIAL BOARD; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: TRANS-, POST-, AND EMERGING HUMANS: WHAT DO WE MEAN?; BETWEEN PROGRESS AND ARMAGEDDON: THE STAKES OF OUR TIME; The Gospel Of Progress; Dystopia And Armageddon; Imagining A Posthuman World; Summary; Bibliography; ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS); Defining STS: Science And Technology Studies Or Science, Technology, And Society?; Essential Concepts In STS; STS And Posthumanism; Summary; Bibliography; CAN WE PREDICT THE MIDDLE-TERM FUTURE?; Early Predictors: A Brief History Of Prediction.
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Adjusting To The Superlongevity RevolutionSummary; Bibliography; RUNAWAY AI; The Singularity Defined; What Is Exponential Growth?; Singularities In Mathematics And Physics; How Will The Singularity Be Achieved?; Why The Singularity May Never Be Reached; Implications Of The Technological Singularity; The End Of Humanity?; Summary; Bibliography; A SKEPTIC'S PERSPECTIVE: IS THIS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?; A Skeptic Weighs In; The Fallacy Of Technological Determinism; A Middle Way Between Techno-enthusiasm And Techno-skepticism; Summary; Bibliography; BUDDHIST UPLOADS; Self/no-self; Woman/man.
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Nature And NurtureToday's State Of The Art In Human Genetic Interventions; The Possibility Of Designer Babies; Knowing That You Were Partially Designed; Epigenetics: A New Pathway For Genetic Modification?; Artificial Chromosomes?; A Superhuman Civilization Of Genetically Modified Humans; Summary; Bibliography; REJUVENATION AND RADICALLY INCREASED HEALTH SPANS; The Three Stages Of The Superlongevity Revolution; The Global Mission To Extend The Human Life Span; The Ultrahuman Phenomenon: Expanding And Transforming Human Potential; Ultrahuman Or Transhuman.
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Predicting StormsEconomics; Bioscience; What Models Tell Us; Not-so-super Forecasters; Summary; Bibliography; IS MIND UPLOADING A REAL POSSIBILITY?; The Concept Of Mind Uploading; The Problem With Ghosts; The Problem With Branches; Summary; Bibliography; THE PREHISTORY OF THE POSTHUMAN; The Transhumanized Human: The Posthuman Of The Fourteenth Century; Early Modern Precedents: Intelligent Tools- Humans Extending Beyond Their Bodies; Teilhard De Chardin: The Internet Of Human Minds; McLuhan: A Global Village Connected By A Web Of Electric Media; Summary; Bibliography; PHARMACEUTICALS.
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The Mid-twentieth-century Emergence Of NeuropharmacologyPharmaceutical Regulation And The Tranquilizer Era; Cosmetic Psychopharmacology And Neurology; Pharmaceuticalization Of Life And Health; Pharmacological Optimism; Pharmaceutical Cyborgs; Posthumanism, Feminism, And The New Materialism; Pharmaceutical Personhood And Performance; Drugs As Tools For Posthuman Selfhood; Summary; Bibliography; BIOELECTRONICS; The Body Electric; The Body Cybernetic; The Body Electronic; The Body Photonic; Prosthetic Gods; Summary; Bibliography; GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS; How Genes Help To Make You Who You Are.
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"Provides an introduction to a vast array of scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings"--
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Human beings.
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Human body-- Technological innovations.
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Humanism.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Human beings.
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Humanism.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Movements-- Humanism.
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| Dewey Classification
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128
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BD450
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Bess, Michael
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Pasulka, Diana Walsh
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