Human Rights and American Bioethics: Resistance Is Futile
2009; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0963180109990338
ISSN1469-2147
Autores Tópico(s)Reproductive Health and Technologies
ResumoThe Borg are always confident that humans will be assimilated into their collective hive and therefore that, as they say, “resistance is futile.” In Star Trek , of course, the humans always successfully resist. Elizabeth Fenton and John Arras, like the Borg, resist the idea that humans are uniquely special as well as the utility of the human rights framework for global bioethics. I believe their resistance to human rights is futile, and I explain why in this essay. Let me begin with their subtitle, because we do seem to agree that popular culture is a powerful aid to understanding human actions and motivations.
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