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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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