Crafting humans : from genesis to eugenics and beyond / Marius Turda (ed.).
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TextSeries: Reflections on (in)humanity: v. 5.Publisher: Goettingen : Taipei, Taiwan : V&R Unipress ; National Taiwan University Press, c2013Description: 197 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9783847100591 (V&R Unipress : hd.bd.); 9789860361599 (National Taiwan University Press : hd.bd.)Other title: From genesis to eugenics and beyondSubject(s): Genetic engineering | Medical innovations | Eugenics | Human body | Medical technology | Philosophical anthropology | Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics | Eugenics -- history| Item type | Current location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Papers presented at the Berendel Foundation's second annual conference held at Queen's College, Oxford bettween 8 and 10, September 2011.
Preface and acknowledgements -- Aftermaths and "foremaths": history and humans / Frank Ankersmit -- Crafting a golem: the creation of an artificial anthropoid / Moshe Idel -- The end of history as the liminality of the human condition: from Kojève to Agamben / Antonis Liakos -- Bio-nomic man (and woman): fantasies of anthropological revolution as a reaction to modernity's nomic crisis / Roger Griffin -- Eugenics: past, present, and future / Merryn Ekberg -- Crafting a healthy nation: European eugenics in historical context / Marius Turda -- Making Italians: Aryanism and anthropology in Italy during the Risorgimento / Maria Sophia Quine -- Julian Huxley's Transhumanism / Alison Bashford -- List of contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of names.