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Inquiring into Animal Enhancement: Model or Counter-Model of Human Enhancement?

Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, and Michela Marzano (eds) 2015 (Palgrave McMillan, UK) ISBN 9781137542465. 137 pp.

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Notes

  1. The term “abolitionist,” as a descriptor for theory and practice regarding the animal question has been identified by a number of scholars and activists as problematic. It indicates a need to further engage in intersectional analysis and to address the western centrism (whiteness) of many fields.

  2. Comstock’s use of “abolitionist” reflects Pearce’s (introduced by Ferrari) usage of the term. It also further illustrates the reductionist nature of the dualism he constructs in seeking to locate his ideas as comprising some form of middle ground.

  3. See Cabrera Trujillo and Engel-Glatter (2015) for a (human-centred) discussion around human-animal chimera and early regulatory frameworks.

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Salter, C. Inquiring into Animal Enhancement: Model or Counter-Model of Human Enhancement?. Nanoethics 10, 257–260 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-016-0272-3

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