Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty, Mark Schweda (Editors).
Topical Collection of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences:
Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality
Bringing together scholars from philosophy, bioethics, law, sociology, and anthropology, this topical collection explores how innovations in the field of biomedicine and the life sciences are challenging and transforming traditional understandings of human temporality and of the temporal duration, extension and structure of human life. The contributions aim to expand the theoretical debate by highlighting the significance of time and human temporality in different discourses and practical contexts, and developing concrete, empirically informed, and culturally sensitive perspectives. The collection is structured around three main foci: the beginning of life, the middle of life, and later life. This structure facilitates an in-depth examination of specific technological and biographical contexts and at the same time allows an overarching comparison of relevant similarities and differences between life phases and fields of application.
Contributions
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty and Mark Schweda – Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality
Ari Schick – Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications
Limor Meoded Danon – Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies
Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt – The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care
Nolwenn Bühler – The ‘good’ of extending fertility: ontology and moral reasoning in a biotemporal regime of reproduction
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty and Silke Schicktanz – The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users
Claudia Bozzaro – Medical technologies, time, and the good life
Julia Perry – Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research
Mark Schweda and Karin Jongsma – Death in advance? A critique of the “zombification” of people with dementia
https://link.springer.com/journal/40656/topicalCollection/AC_b7f1fdf1d01488ba17da6bc0250508b8