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Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics

About the Book Series

Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics aims to act as a nexus for debates typically in collections of diverse but explicitly interrelated essays about the histories and literatures of bioethical debates from a wide spectrum of disciplines, methodologies, periods and geographical contexts. This series champions conversations from within interdisciplinary collision spaces, considering the effects of physical and metaphysical environments upon factual and fictional spaces.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact the Series Editors, Chris Mounsey ([email protected]), Stan Booth ([email protected]), and Madeleine Mant ([email protected]).

6 Series Titles


Bioethics in and of the Archive Body Talk

Bioethics in and of the Archive: Body Talk

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Madeleine Mant, Chris Mounsey
December 07, 2026

Spanning global contexts from eighteenth-century Caribbean collections to contemporary museum and digital archives, this book rethinks how archives shape understanding of human bodies and interrogates the ethical, methodological, and theoretical challenges of working with records of embodied lives....

Coastal Environments in Popular Song Lost Horizons

Coastal Environments in Popular Song: Lost Horizons

1st Edition

Edited By Glenn Fosbraey
August 26, 2024

This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and ...

Stewardship and the Future of the Planet Promise and Paradox

Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradox

1st Edition

Edited By Rachel Carnell, Chris Mounsey
May 27, 2024

This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it. The idea of stewardship – human ...

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"

1st Edition

Edited By Madeleine Mant, Chris Mounsey
January 09, 2023

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught" continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and contexts. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase...

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics

1st Edition

Edited By Stan Booth, Chris Mounsey
December 19, 2022

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social sciences, to history, to sustainability studies, to ...

Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information: Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

1st Edition

Edited By Chris Mounsey, Stan Booth
November 08, 2019

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, ...

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