生命科技倫理學(Ethics of Biotechnology)

 ──2001年秋 (90學年度第一學期)

授課內容:

目前對生命科技的批判討論可以追溯到二次大戰後社會批判理論的科技批判。女性主義興起後,性別與科技的關係就成為女性主義的重要議題。女性主義雖然充斥了濃厚的反科技觀,但是很早就有如Firestone這類擁護(生殖)科技的女性主義者。近年因為新生殖科技、基因工程與身體科技(變性)的興起,生命科技也成為女性主義生命倫理學的焦點。本課程即是針對這些議題所作的深度探討。

Readings:     

教科書(選集):
 
Tong, Rosemarie P.  Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.  

Firestone, Shulamith.  The Dialectic of Sex. 第十章(cf. 第一章,第九章)

Sawicki, A.  Disciplining Foucault. New York: Routledge, 1991. 第四章.

Hopkins, Patrick D., ed.  Sex / Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998.

Rothschild, Joan, ed.  Machina Ex Dea: Feiminist Perspectives on technology.

參考書目
  社會理論科技批判

Max Horkheirner, chapter entitled, "The Revolt of Nature" excerpted from his The Eclipse of Reason

Herbert Marcuse, "Some Social implications of Modern Technology" from Arato and Gebhardt eds., The Essential Frankfurt School

Sherry Ortner, 'Is Woman To Nature as Man is to Culture?'

 

批判科技的女性主義

Charlene Spretneck, Resurgence of the Real.

 

擁護科技的女性主義

Haraway, Donna J.  Simians, Cyborgs, and Women.

Meera Nanda, "History is What Hurts: A Materialist Feminist Perspective on the Green Revolution and Its Ecofeminist Critics,' in Hennessy and Ingraham eds., Materialist Feninism

Meera Nanda, "Restoring the Real: Rethinking Social Constructivist  Theories of Science," From Socialtst Register, 1997

Standpoint Sandra Harding, "Women's on Nature: What Makes them Possible?"

 

變性與身體科技

Hausman, Bernice L.  Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender.

Sandy Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto," in Epstein and Straub, eds., BodyGuards: The Culttural Politics of Gender Ambiguity

Jan Raymond, Transsexual Frnpire

Deborah Blum, Sex on the Brain

  性/病

Oudshoorn, Nelly.  Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones.

Emily Martin. Flexible Bodies

Allucquere Rosanne Stone, The War of Desire and Technology

  科技烏托邦與性別

Pat Cadigan, Dirtyworks

Joy, Bill, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Wired magazine, April 2000

  性別與科技選集

Martha Nussbaum and Cass Sundstein eds. Clones and Clones

Anne Fausto Sterling, Sexing the Body : Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

  電腦科技與性別

Edwards, Paul, 1990 "The Army and the Microworld: Computers and the Politics of Identity" Signs 16:1 102-127

Pamela Kramer and Sheila Lehman, 「Mismeasuring Women: A Critique of Research on Computer Ability and Avoidance」, Signs, 1990, vol. 16, no. 11

Rimm, Marty, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Descriptions, Short Stories, and Animations Downloaded 8.5 million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories," The Carnegie Mellon Study

Ross, Eillen, 1995 "E-Mail Stalking: Is Adequate Legal Protection Available?" John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 13 405-432

Volokh, Eugene, 1996 "Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace from the Listener's Perspective: Private Speech Restrictions, libel, State Action, Harassment and Sex" University of Chicago Legal Forum 377-436

"Are Harassing E-Mail Messages Electronic Violations of Stalking Laws?" About Women On Campus 94:34 5

Turkle, Sherry and Seymour Papert, 1990 "Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and the Computer」

  醫療與科技

Berkowitz, Jonathan and Jack Snyder 1998 "Racism and Sexism in Medically Assisted Conception" Bioethics 12:1 25-44

Stein, Edward, 1998 "Choosing the Sexual Orientation of Children" Bioethics 12:1 1-24

  代理孕母與生殖科技

Van Niekerk, Anton and liezl Van Zyl The Ethics of Surrogacy: Women's Reproductive Labor by, The Journal of Medical Ethics, 1995, 21: 345-349

McLachlan, Hugh, "Defending Commerical Surrogate Motherhood against Van Niekerk and Van Zyl," ,Journal of Medical Ethics, 1997; 23: 344-348

Mahowald, Mary, and Dana Levinson and Christine Cassel, "The New Genetics and Women," Signs 16:1

Zalewski, Marysia.  Feminism after Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 2000.  Chapter 3

相關網站

1. cyber feminism相關Old Boys Network http://www.obn.org/

2. haraway hyperlinks http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RF6T-TYFK/haraway.html

3. Judy Wajcman http://www.alteich.com/links/wajcman.htm

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