Technicians of Human Dignity : Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth /

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Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of digni...

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Autor principal: Bennett, Gaymon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Colección:Just Ideas
Temas:
Bioethics.
Human rights.
Respect for persons.
Anthropology.
Theology.
Bioethik
Menschenwürde
MEDICAL / Ethics.
Commission on Human Rights.
Human Dignity.
President's Council on Bioethics.
Vatican II.
anthropology.
biopower.
human rights.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Motion of Inquiry
  • introduction. Figuring Human Dignity
  • 1. The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power
  • 2. The Ontology of Vocation:
  • II. Human Dignity and the United Nations
  • 3. Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights
  • 4. Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • diagnostic excursus. Economies of Life and Power
  • III. Human Dignity and the President's Council on Bioethics
  • 5. Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics
  • 6. The Biopolitical Pastoral:
  • Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration
  • Notes
  • Index

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