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- Title: Biopower and the Liberationist Romance (Essays) (Report)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 163 KB
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Bioethics 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 limitations, constraints, and inhibitions imposed by forces (rules, roles, institutions, interference by others, customs, traditions) from the outside. Today this liberationist romance is being challenged, revised, and deepened from at least two angles. One, which might be referred to as "deontological humanism," refines our comprehension of individual freedom and dignity beyond minimalist notions of self-reliance and freedom from others' interference. (2) A second perspective, which offers a critical deconstruction of what it calls "biopolitics" and "biopower," provides a more overtly political and systemic narrative of ethics in the face of power. (3)
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