Politics and the Human Body
Assault on Dignity
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2020
352 pages
978-0-8265-0201-8 (ISBN)
Description
Who or what determines the right to die? Do advancing reproductive technologies change reproductive rights? What forces influence cultural standards of beauty? How do discipline, punishment, and torture reflect our attitudes about the human body? In this challenging new book, Jean Bethke Elshtain, a nationally recognized scholar in political science and philosophy, and J. Timothy Cloyd, a strong new voice in social and political science, have assembled a collection of thought-provoking essays on these issues written by some of the finest minds of our day.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction Bodies and Politics
- One Bodies Perfect, Bodies Everlasting, Bodies Bought and Sold
- 1 Terra es animata: On Having a Life
- 2 The New Eugenics and Feminist Quandaries
- 3 The Dream of the Human Genome
- 4 The Matter of Baby M
- 5 "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom: A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction
- Two Suffering and Pain: The Body Beleaguered and Besieged
- 6 Pain, Suffering, and Death in the ICU
- 7 Suffering in Chronic Illness
- 8 A Reflection on Pain and Embodiment
- Three Organs for Sale or Rent: Progress or Pathology
- 9 Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property, and the Price of Progress
- 10 The Case for Commerce in Organ Transplantation
- Four Misguided Compassion, Disciplined Subjects, Torture as Politics, and Slavery as Social Death
- 11 Killing Compassion
- 12 Selling Student Bodies
- 13 Democratic Space: A Study of Political Excess in Foucault's Thought
- 14 Torture, Human Rights, and the Body
- 15 The Slave Body: Authority, Alienation, and Social Death
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
