meant to write about Babel this evening as it haunts me and s0metim3s’ post brought it back. But Alice Dreger writes about the ashley treatment which is all the outrage at the moment. And she holds back any invective to draw out the way parental decision making is continually recoded along an [...]
o this is a tour of (some of) Jean-Luc Nancy’s writing on bodies. My aim in this tour is to find ways of writing about bodies and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). I’m hoping that the tangibilities Nancy describes - his own disintegrating body; the impenetrability of bodies, the intercorporeality of touch and his projected [...]
t the heart of much bioethics discussion around reproductive technologies is a binary conceived between chance and choice. Between an idea that what is valuable in the child is its unexpectedness, the gift of its arrival. And an idea that we should be free to choose as much as possible about our lives including [...]
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Monthly Archives: January 2007