Bioconservatism

Bioconservatism is a stance of hesitancy about technological development in general and strong opposition to the genetic, prosthetic and cognitive modification of human beings in particular. Whether arising from a conventionally Right-wing politics of religious/cultural conservatism or from a conventionally Left-wing politics of environmentalism, bioconservative positions oppose medical and other technological interventions into what are broadly perceived as current human and cultural limits in the name of a defense of Natural law deployed as a moral category.

Bioconservative skepticism toward biomedical and other particular technological developments often is, but need not always be, part of a more general technophobia perspective or critique of technological society. Neo-luddism represents a more radical and sweeping anti-technological perspective.

Technoprogressivism is the stance that contrasts with bioconservatism.

=See also=

*Bioethics *Biopolitics *Genetic engineering *History of science and technology *Human enhancement technologies *Nanotechnology *Neuroethics *Reprogenetics *Technological evolution

= External links =

*[http://www.abetterearth.org/article.php/1203.html Review of Liberation Biology: Bailey takes on the bioconservatives] (A Better Earth, September 2005)