Introduction

This chapter tracks the histories of the posthumanities and bioethics in order to outline potential areas of dialogue between them. It contends that a normative, universality morality rooted in personhood cannot elucidate the rapidly changing account of the human necessitated by the contemporary biosciences, and argues that the posthumanities can and should inform the conversations around life, subjectivity, human nature, responsibility, and interspecies relations that underpin bioethical decision-making. Finally, it outlines a bioethics informed by the posthumanities, which would simultaneously operate within existing bioethical discourse while rethinking the formulation of bioethical questions.