Acknowledgments

JAMES BUCHANAN AND PETER HERSHOCK

Introduction

1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference

VYACHESLAV STIOPIN

Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization

FRANK W. DERRINGH

Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival

SUSANTHA GOONATILAKE

Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition

SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

Islam and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Wordviews

2. Biotechnologies

GLOBALIZING THE CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS

HENK A.M.J. TEN HAVE

Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies

GEORGE KHUSHF

Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic

ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE

Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach

JAPAN: A NATIONAL CASE STUDY

CARL BECKER

Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care

WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR

Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation

BUDDHISM: A CULTURAL CASE STUDY

DAVID R. LOY

Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology

PEIMIN NI

Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology)

3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent

HANS-GEORG MÖLLER

How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media

PAUL B. THOMPSON

Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply

YOKO ARISAKA

Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation

LOIS ANN LORENTZEN

Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador

KRISTIN SHRADER-FRECHETTE

Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl

GHANDIAN PERSPECTIVES

KURUVILLA PANDIKATTU, S.J.

Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion

VASANTHI SRINIVASAN

Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology

4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species

RAMON SENTMARTi

From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium

MONICA OPOLE

Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation

FRANCESCA BRAY

How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator

5. Technology and the Home

ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI

Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings

DAVID B. WONG

Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering

JOEL J. KUPPERMAN

Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism

6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment

JOSEPH MARGOLIS

Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human

HELEN PETROVSKY

Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema

THOMAS P. KASULIS

Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction

ROLF ELBERFELD

Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology

7. Technology, Communication, and Education

MARY TILES

Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values

CHARLES ESS

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism

ANDREW FEENBERG

Online Education and the Choices of Modernity

DAVID FARRELL KRELL

The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology

H. JIUAN HENG

The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet

8. Critical Afterword

JAMES P. BUCHANAN

Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation)

PETER D. HERSHOCK

Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness

Contributors

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Subject Index