Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being - Paperback

by Elyse Purcell (Author)

Advances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope in medicine, but capitalism may incentivize the selection of traits for profit. Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being offers an opposing Marxist view, one that embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference.

Author Biography

Elyse Purcell is assistant professor of philosophy at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.