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Philosophy Today, 2016
The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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Foucault on methadone: Beyond biopower
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009This essay reviews four texts which critically analyse methadone maintenance therapy using Foucault as a key theoretical framework: [Friedman, J., & Alicea, M. (2001). Surviving heroin: Interviews with women in methadone clinics. Florida: University Press of Florida], [Bourgois, P. (2000).
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2019
Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity has had to now contend with numerous changes, including our attitude environment protection, and also with depletion of classical energy resources. These have had consequences in the power production sector, which was already struggling with negative public opinion on nuclear energy, but a favorable ...
David Chiaramonti, andrea maria rizzo
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Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity has had to now contend with numerous changes, including our attitude environment protection, and also with depletion of classical energy resources. These have had consequences in the power production sector, which was already struggling with negative public opinion on nuclear energy, but a favorable ...
David Chiaramonti, andrea maria rizzo
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Advances in Nursing Science, 2010
This article answers a call, recently published in Advances in Nursing Science, to more fully explore the use of Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's theory of biopower in nursing research and scholarship. Giorgio Agamben argues that biopower is not a modern phenomenon, and critical analysis of the historical origins of Western political ...
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This article answers a call, recently published in Advances in Nursing Science, to more fully explore the use of Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's theory of biopower in nursing research and scholarship. Giorgio Agamben argues that biopower is not a modern phenomenon, and critical analysis of the historical origins of Western political ...
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Biopower and the Liberationist Romance
Hastings Center Report, 2010Bioethics lives in the shadow of great structures and practices of power, and yet, it has not been notable for its contributions to an understanding of power. (1) Indeed, the narrative that bioethics has fashioned for itself has been mainly a liberationist romance: a quest narrative in which the individual, seeking autonomy, struggles against ...
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Michel Foucault introduced the concepts of biopower and biopolitics to avoid the shortcomings of a hegemonic concept of power in political theory, which defines power in terms of sovereignty and the state and does not account for how power functions outside the state in institutions like the family, physician–patient relationships, or in the workplace.
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Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower
2017This chapter introduces the cultural history of health governance and sketches the broad outline of how epidemic diseases were significantly transformed in Victorian London by a novel system of hospital isolation. The historiography of disease control in the nineteenth century tends to focus on how the fear and panic of contagious disease lends itself ...
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2019
This chapter engages two issues as they bear on genomic editing and the effects of biotechnology on human well-being: (1) how technology influences a reductionistic and manipulative understanding of biopower and biopolitics, fundamentally at odds with the worldview of bioethical humanism; and (2) how the reconceptualization of human flourishing in ...
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This chapter engages two issues as they bear on genomic editing and the effects of biotechnology on human well-being: (1) how technology influences a reductionistic and manipulative understanding of biopower and biopolitics, fundamentally at odds with the worldview of bioethical humanism; and (2) how the reconceptualization of human flourishing in ...
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