Review of the book "What It Means to Be Human: The Case of the Body in Public Bioethics" by O. Carter Snead
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https://doi.org/10.29105/dj4.7-9Keywords:
Abortion, Assisted reproduction , Decisions about death , Anthropology of the body , Expressive individualismAbstract
We review the book "What it means to be human" by O. Carter Snead. The book has 5 chapters, but we hold it is written in two major sections. In the first one, the author describes the anthropology of "expressive individualism", which underlies the American public bioethics debate. In the second one, the author exposes a genealogy of the most importan bioethics topics in the U.S.A. (abortion, assisted reproduction, public bioethics of death and dying). He criticizes the anthropology of "expressive individualism" and he stands for the anthropology of embodiment.
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Snead, O. Carter. “What it means to be human: the case if the body in public bioethics”, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020, pp. 321.
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