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The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social tech...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
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2014. ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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KörperKulturen
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The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839417478 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | R724 |
| CLC: | R-052 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Between self-determination and social technology. Medicine, biopolitics and the new techniques of procedural management / From social care to planning childbirth in the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1975 / Planning death: Debates on euthanasia, end of life care and living wills in Germany since the 1970s / Genetic counseling and the fiction of choice: Taught self-determination as a new technique of social engineering / Shifting responsibilities in the medical field: US-American bioethics and its move into the hospital setting / A speaking cure for conflicts: problematization, discourse stimulation and the ongoing of scientific progress / Post-apocalyptic discourse and the new modesty: governing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the UK / Is everything in good health? / New biopolitics? The articulation of demographic aims and gender policies in international population programs / List of Contributors. |