Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics

Stan Booth is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Winchester. Chris Mounsey is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Cultural Studies at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction: Is Extinction a Thing of the Past? 1STAN BOOTHPART IDelineating Contexts—Extinction 91 “Enough to Change a Planet”: Feeling Extinction in Contemporary Literature 11HEATHER J. HICKS2 This Selfish Ape 37NICHOLAS P. MONEY3 The Extinction of Intellectual Disability: An Enlightenment Project from Locke to Freud 50SIMON JARRETT4 “Civilizing the ‘Redman’…”: John Locke, Adam Smith, and Social Darwinist Perceptions of Religion, Land-Use, and Progress as Policy to Make Extinct the Traditional Lifeways of North American Indian Peoples 68CHRISTINA WELCHPART IIApplying Contexts—Extinction Does Not Lead to an “End” 955 “Strong in Zeal but Impotent in Head”: British Responses to the Cattle Plagues of the Eighteenth Century 97CHRIS MOUNSEY6 “They Are All Dead, Except a Few”: Social Complications and Royal Reactions to Death in England, 1348–1350 112WENDY J. TURNER7 The Right to a Cure: The Bioethics of Variolation 136STAN BOOTHPART IIICreating “New” Contexts—Evolution 1558 Tinkering with Eden: The Lure and Myth of Free-Willed Nature 157IAN D. ROTHERHAM9 Whose Utopia?: The Complexity of Incorporating Diverse Ethical Views Within Nature Governance Frameworks 184JOANNA MILLER SMALLWOOD10 For An Actional Ethics: Making Better Sense of Science 205STEPHEN J. COWLEY11 The Descent of Language: Biology, Linguistic Evolution, and Language Extinction 222ERIC LACEY