Between Self-Determination and Social Technology - Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management

The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is procedural management as a new set of social techniques.
With a preface by William Ray Arney.

About the author

Kathrin Braun, Dr. phil. habil., vertritt den Lehrstuhl für politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte am Seminar für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Göttingen. Sie lehrt und forscht in den Bereichen Biomedizinpolitik, Politische Philosophie und Feministische Politische Theorie.§

Report

Reviewed in:
PW-Portal, 4 (2012), Anja-Franke Schwenk

Product details

• Assisted by: Kathri Braun (Editor), Kathrin Braun (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9783837617474
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-1747-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Weight: 424 g
• Series: KörperKulturen; Körper Kulturen; KörperKulturen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology