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Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’ (2015)
Book Chapter
Gonzalez-Arnal, S. (2015). Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (107-127). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press

In this chapter I argue, against Mary Midgley, that the ‘yuk’ feeling that is elicited by chimeras should not be taken into account when making moral evaluations of the kind of biotechnology that creates them (‘algeny’, according to Midgley). She lin... Read More about Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’.

Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems (2015)
Book
Ornella, A. (2015). A. Höpflinger, A. D. Ornella, & S. Knauss (Eds.). Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems. Nomos

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion. This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the bo... Read More about Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems.