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Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
ISBN: 9783839417478
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / transcript Verlag
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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. Rezension Reviewed in:PW-Portal, 4 (2012), Anja-Franke Schwenk