Inquiring into Animal Enhancement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette, Michela Marzano

   Pages 1-12

3. Animal Enhancement: Technovisionary Paternalism and the Colonisation of Nature

   • Arianna Ferrari

   Pages 13-33

4. Improving Animals, Improving Humans: Transpositions and Comparisons

   • Florence Burgat

   Pages 34-48

5. Harming Some to Enhance Others

   • Gary Comstock

   Pages 49-78

6. Sex Hormones for Animals and Humans? Enhancement and the Public Expertise of Drugs in Post-war United States and France

   • Jean-Paul Gaudillière

   Pages 79-108

7. So Different and Yet So Similar: Comparing the Enhancement of Human and Animal Bodies in French Law

   • Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier

   Pages 109-131

8. Back Matter

   Pages 132-137

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This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.

• STS
• Health
• Sociology
• Technology Studies
• Animal enhancement
• Human enhancement
• Converging Technologies
• transhumanism
• human nature
• therapy-enhancement distinction
• future studies
• sociology of expertise
• animals
• colonisation
• nature
• Sex
• sociology

“Contributions to the volume expose and challenge a number of assumptions in unpacking and interrogating the notion of enhancement. … those interested in the direction of theory and debate about notions of enhancement, the animal question … and broader societal implications will find contributions in this volume to be useful. … This volume provides an interesting contribution to what will continue to be a substantive debate.” (Colin Salter, Nanoethics, Vol. 10, 2016)

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

  Simone Bateman

• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

  Jean Gayon

• Université Catholique de Lyon, France

  Sylvie Allouche

• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

  Jérôme Goffette

• Université Paris Descartes, France

  Michela Marzano

Sylvie Allouche, Université Catholique de Lyon, France Simone Bateman, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France Florence Burgat, National Institute of Agronomic Research, France Gary Comstock, North Carolina State University, USA Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier, National Centre for Scientific Research, France Arianna Ferrari, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, and Society (CERMES3), France Jean Gayon, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Jérôme Goffette, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France Michela Marzano, Université Paris Descartes, France

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