{"product_id":"engineering-perfection-solidarity-disability-and-wellbeing-9781793624130","title":"Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAdvancements in biomedical science and the possibility of creating designer babies raise ethical questions about our obligations to future generations. Elyse Purcell's book \"Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being\" explores the impact of global capitalism on the selection of traits for these children and the potential exploitation of bodily diversity for profit. She proposes the Solidarity view, which embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference and challenges us to reject the pursuit of human perfection as the good life. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 196 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 September 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat do we owe our future children?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do advances in biomedical science bear on these obligations? How do capitalist incentives distort their execution?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdvances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope to control the fragility of human living. Some philosophers have argued that we have a moral imperative to use them, especially to eliminate disabilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElyse Purcell offers an opposing view, one guided by existential insights and Marxist reflections. Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being explores the effect global capitalism may have on the selection of traits for our future children and how the commercialization of these technologies may lead to the elimination of bodily diversity. Although philosophers have addressed the possible widening between the haves and have-nots, this book considers the role oppression and exploitation may play in enhancing bodies for profit. As a challenge to the global economy of debility, Purcell proposes the Solidarity view, which embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference. By reflecting on facets of the human condition, the Solidarity view challenges us to reject our conception of the good life as human perfection and instead reconceive of the good as one's self-realization through the interdependent mutual recognition and co-belonging with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 313g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 231 x 153 x 15 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781793624130\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elyse Purcell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44585369075962,"sku":"9781793624130","price":34.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1695402439052_book.jpg?v=1695582161","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/engineering-perfection-solidarity-disability-and-wellbeing-9781793624130","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}