Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2014
272 pages
978-3-8394-1747-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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- Cover Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
- Contents
- Preface by William Ray Arney
- Between self-determination and social technology. Medicine, biopolitics and the new techniques of procedural management. An introduction
- 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? From bio to nano-the proliferation of governmental ethics in France
- New biopolitics? The articulation of demographic aims and gender policies in international population programs
- List of Contributors
