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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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Inscrire son corps dans le texte : comment s’hybrigraphier ?
Itinéraires, 2009 From Niezsche’s idiosyncrasy to Barthes’s biographeme, inscribing one’s body into the text should be the condition for an epistemological reading of the researcher’s body in his/her work.
Bernard Andrieu
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Body of suffering: philosophic-anthropological interpretation
Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2006 The author’s concept of anthropology of suffering and embodiment of biopower is discussed in the context of bioethical prob- lems. Basic prerequisites for division of human totality into soul (selfhood) and body are described with reference to ...
P. D. Tischenko
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Science and power over life: science fiction and biotechnology in films
Intexto, 2012 This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”.
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Le biopouvoir chez Foucault et Agamben
Methodos, 2004 According to Foucault, a transformation in the way of exerting power can be discerned from the 18th century onwards, as life becomes a topic of concern for power itself.
Katia Genel
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