Between Self-Determination and Social Technology : : Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management / / ed. by Kathrin Braun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arney, William Ray,; Braun, Kathrin,; Herrmann, Svea Luise,; Jordan, Isabella,; Kohlen, Helen,; Könninger, Sabine,; Samerski, Silja,; Schultz, Susanne,; Schumann, Marion,
• HerausgeberIn: Braun, Kathrin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: KörperKulturen
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Between self-determination and social technology. Medicine, biopolitics and the new techniques of procedural management -- From social care to planning childbirth in the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1975 -- Planning death: Debates on euthanasia, end of life care and living wills in Germany since the 1970s -- Genetic counseling and the fiction of choice: Taught self-determination as a new technique of social engineering -- Shifting responsibilities in the medical field: US-American bioethics and its move into the hospital setting -- A speaking cure for conflicts: problematization, discourse stimulation and the ongoing of scientific ‘progress’ -- Post-apocalyptic discourse and the new modesty: governing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the UK -- Is everything in good health? -- New biopolitics? The articulation of demographic aims and gender policies in international population programs -- List of Contributors