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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 tech...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Braun, Kathrin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2011]
Series:KörperKulturen
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Arney, William Ray
  • Between self-determination and social technology. Medicine, biopolitics and the new techniques of procedural management / Braun, Kathrin
  • From social care to planning childbirth in the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1975 / Schumann, Marion
  • Planning death: Debates on euthanasia, end of life care and living wills in Germany since the 1970s / Jordan, Isabella
  • Genetic counseling and the fiction of choice: Taught self-determination as a new technique of social engineering / Samerski, Silja
  • Shifting responsibilities in the medical field: US-American bioethics and its move into the hospital setting / Kohlen, Helen
  • A speaking cure for conflicts: problematization, discourse stimulation and the ongoing of scientific 'progress' / Herrmann, Svea Luise
  • Post-apocalyptic discourse and the new modesty: governing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the UK / Braun, Kathrin ; Schultz, Susanne
  • Is everything in good health? / Könninger, Sabine
  • New biopolitics? The articulation of demographic aims and gender policies in international population programs / Schultz, Susanne
  • List of Contributors.