Screen LibraryConquest of Body : Biopower with Biotechnology /
This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology. The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowle...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57324-3 |
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This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology. The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowledge of it and to conquer it. Exploration of body has an intrinsic link to power, since knowledge is constitutive for the power over the body. Ultimately the conquest of body means the power to intervene into life processes. The book breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from the |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XVII, 366 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319573243 |
| Index Number: | B67 |
| CLC: | N02 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Mapping, Knowing, Mastering -- Body Prints and Identification -- Solution of Life -- Biopower of Biotechnology -- Bibliography -- Index. |