Expansions

Abstract

All of the technologies discussed in the foregoing chapters focus on parts rather than persons as wholes. Working with elements that are often microscopically small, these technologies use the parts to ascertain an individual’s identity or condition of health, to store a person’s procreative gametes indefinitely, to keep a person alive in one or another sense of that term. One of the pervasive themes of this book, indeed, is that technology bypasses whole persons and pares them down to parts.