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Literary BioethicsAnimality, Disability, and the Human$
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Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human

Maren Tova Linett

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9781479801268

Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2021

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479801268.001.0001

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Epilogue

Epilogue

Revaluing Lives

Chapter:
(p.147) Epilogue
Source:
Literary Bioethics
Author(s):

Maren Tova Linett

Publisher:
NYU Press
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479801268.003.0006

The epilogue analyzes some of the ways the ideologies considered in the study play out in contemporary, real-world devaluation and exploitation of nonhuman beings, old human beings, and disabled human beings. It then compares some of the logic shared by the old eugenics and the new “liberal eugenics” advocated by many contemporary philosophers. It ends by suggesting that efforts to secure human rights are not threatened by efforts to secure animal rights—that both aims should be pursued together.

Keywords:   animal studies, aging, disability, eugenics, liberal eugenics, genetic enhancement

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