Overview
- The first book to investigate the diffuse relationship between bioethics and biopolitics in contemporary social settings
- Brings together a group of top scholars linking various concepts of biopolitics to the much debated issues of bioethics
- Provides the reader with major insights and orientation in the different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics
Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 8)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts: Biopolitics and Biopower
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Front Matter
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Applications: Contemporary Biopolitics and Bioethical Issues
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Front Matter
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Connections: Bioethics and Biopolitics
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Keywords
- big pharma
- bioethics and biopolitics
- biopolitics as a concept
- biopower
- contemporary biopolitics
- emerging life in law
- ethics in genome sequencing research
- human rights and European law
- medical ethics
- medicine and philosophy
- modern continental philosophy
- political philosophy
- relationship between bioethics and biopolitics
- the foucauldian heritage
- theories of biopolitics
About this book
This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. On the one hand, several chapters develop a clear and up-to-date understanding of the primary sources of the concept and related theories of Agamben, Negri or Foucault and approach the question of relevance within the field of bioethics. Another group of papers apply the philosophical concepts and theories of biopolitics (biopower, Homo Sacer, biocitizenship) on very specific currently debated bioethical issues. Some scholars rely on the more mundane understanding of (bio)politics and investigate how its relationship with bioethics could be philosophically conceptualized. Additionally, this work also contains papers that follow a more legally oriented analysis on the effects of contemporary biopolitics on human rights and European law.
The authors are philosophers, legal scholars or bioethicists. The major strength of this volume is to provide the reader with major insights and orientation in these different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics, within the context of its various ethically relevant applications.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Péter Kakuk is a philosopher, bioethicists currently teaching at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is research associate at the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine at the Central European University and he is member of the Medical Research Council of Hungary. His publications focused on various issues related to current debates in bioethics and modern philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioethics and Biopolitics
Book Subtitle: Theories, Applications and Connections
Editors: Péter Kakuk
Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66249-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66247-3Published: 10 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88206-2Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66249-7Published: 03 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2212-652X
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 135
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medical Law, Sociology, general