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.

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
Introduction; Simone Bateman, Jean Gayon, Sylvie Allouche, Jérôme Goffette and Michela Marzano

1. Animal Enhancement: Technovisionary Paternalism and the Colonisation of Nature; Arianna Ferrari

2. Improving Animals, Improving Humans: Transpositions and Comparisons; Florence Burgat

3. Harming Some to Enhance Others; Gary Comstock

4. Sex Hormones for Humans and Animals? Enhancement and the Public Expertise of Drugs in Post-War United States and France; Jean-Paul Gaudillière

5. So Different and Yet So Similar: Comparing the Enhancement of Human and Animal Bodies in French law; Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier