Overview
- Reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body
- Argues that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to conquer it
- Breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from Renaissance drawings to medical imaging
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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About this book
This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology.
The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowledge of it and to conquer it. Exploration of body has an intrinsic link to power, since knowledge is constitutive for the power over the body. Ultimately the conquest of body means the power to intervene into life processes.
The book breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from the Renaissance drawings to the medical imaging. In particular, it investigates their complex mediality. It also considers the extension and the reach of biopower that is now possible thanks to a wide range of engineering applications.
The author originally questions the research approach by rethinking the relationship between mental and sensual examination. She takes intoconsideration the epistemological problem of the two modes of exploration: obtaining knowledge from empirical exploration and projecting that knowledge to the object of exploration.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conquest of Body
Book Subtitle: Biopower with Biotechnology
Authors: Polona Tratnik
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57324-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57323-6Published: 31 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57324-3Published: 26 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 100
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary