Bioethics and Biopolitics: Theories, Applications and Connections (1st ed. 2017) (Advancing Global Bioethics #8)

Synopsis

This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. On the one hand, several chapters develop a clear and up-to-date understanding of the primary sources of the concept and related theories of Agamben, Negri or Foucault and approach the question of relevance within the field of bioethics. Another group of papers apply the philosophical concepts and theories of biopolitics (biopower, Homo Sacer, biocitizenship) on very specific currently debated bioethical issues. Some scholars rely on the more mundane understanding of (bio)politics and investigate how its relationship with bioethics could be philosophically conceptualized. Additionally, this work also contains papers that follow a more legally oriented analysis on the effects of contemporary biopolitics on human rights and European law. The authors are philosophers, legal scholars or bioethicists. The major strength of this volume is to provide the reader with major insights and orientation in these different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics, within the context of its various ethically relevant applications.

Copyright:

2017

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ISBN-13:

9783319662497

Related ISBNs:

9783319662473

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing, Cham

Date of Addition:

10/23/18

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Springer International Publishing, Cham

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy, Sociology

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