Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society
- 206 pages
- English
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Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society
About this book
Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society offers new, critical perspectives on the impact of 'life-enhancing' technological advancements on consumer identity positions and market evolutions.
Technoprogressive innovations that include body modification technologies and reproductive technologies have enabled people to transcend bodily constraints. In parallel, they provoke necessary, critical interrogation around human capabilities, technological possibilities, gender equality, feminism, personal identity, bioethics, markets and morality. The contributions in this book re-evaluate these topics and elucidate some of the vexed relationships between consumers of biotechnologies and markets they consider restrictive or misleading. Secondly, by illustrating consumers' questioning of and resistance to biomedical, market imperatives, they highlight how the notion of consumer sovereignty, consumer influence over markets, has now advanced into novel forms of consumer activism made manifest through contemporary health justice movements. The chapters in this book also uncover profoundly personal consumer accounts on coping with and managing bodies-in-transition, focusing on illness, self-perception, survivorship and the vicissitudes of these corporeal experiences. This book will allow readers to understand how accelerated technological market changes are being experienced and creatively countered at the societal and individual level.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Live very long and prosper? Transhumanist visions and ambitions in 2021 and beyond…
- 1 Transhumanism in speculative fiction
- 2 An IVF survivor unravels fertility industry narratives
- 3 IVF survivorship, the IVF memoir and reproductive activism
- 4 Social inequalities, reproductive bodies, and technological interventions
- 5 Perfecting or selecting? When ‘kinds of children’ are the objective
- 6 The Promethean biohacker: on consumer biohacking as a labour of love
- 7 Reproduction as consumption: unravelling the sociological shaping of reproductive tourism market in China
- 8 Dead metaphors and responsibilised bodies-in-transition: the implications of medical metaphors for understanding the consumption of preventative healthcare
- 9 Wearable technologies, brand community and the growth of a transhumanist vision
- Index