Overview
- Analyses Foucault’s work on scientific discourses and their interplay with individuals and society
- Outlines a Foucauldian approach to science criticism and ethical issues regarding research with human subjects
- Discusses the ethical controversy over plans to construct a genetic database encompassing the entire Icelandic nation
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge
- the politics of thruth
- origin and development of archaelology
- sciences of man
- sciences of nature
- conceptions of left-handedness
- scientific study of left-handers
- Icelandic science
- the icelandic health sector database
- totally informative population
- archaeology of knowledge
- madness, medicine, theory
- biopolitics
- icelanders as subjects of science
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foucault and the Human Subject of Science
Authors: Garðar Árnason
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02813-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02812-1Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02813-8Published: 29 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 107
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Science and Technology Studies