Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference
6. Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization 17
7. Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival 26
8. Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition 46
9. Islām and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews 70
10. 2. Biotechnologies
11. Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies 101
12. Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic 117
13. Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach 132
14. Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care 139
15. Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation 158
16. Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology 176
17. Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology) 188
18. 3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent
19. How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media 209
20. Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply 222
21. Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation 236
22. Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador 252
23. Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl 265
24. Gandhi’s Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion 279
25. Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger’s Analysis of Technology 303
26. 4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species
27. From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium 319
28. Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation 341
29. How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator 354
30. 5. Technology and the Home
31. Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings 385
32. Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering 400
33. Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism 416
34. 6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment
35. Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human 433
36. Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema 448
37. Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction 462
38. Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology 478
39. 7. Technology, Communication, and Education
40. Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values 493
41. Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism 508
42. Online Education and the Choices of Modernity 528
43. The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology 548
44. The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet 558
45. 8. Critical Afterword
46. Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation) 577
47. Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness 587
48. Contributors 601
49. Name Index 607
50. Subject Index 611