Bioconservative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bioconservative is an adjective meaning Characterized by bioconservatism.
Meaning
Characterized by bioconservatism.
More Meanings
- A proponent of bioconservatism.
Example Sentences
So what's all that got to do with transhumanism, and why do I think that transhumanists are actually more bioconservative than their opponents?
We can emphasize the idea that enhancement need not undermine bioconservative values by imagining a type of enhancement that promotes these values.
Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.
I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.
Word Forms
- bioconservatives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biohistorical, bioessentialist, biocenotic, bioisosteric, biotheological, bioindividual.
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