Between Self-Determination and Social Technology : : Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management / / ed. by Kathrin Braun.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | KörperKulturen
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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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