Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with insurance policies, to difficulties with adoption agencies.
The empirical studies on the problem of genetic discrimination have not gone unnoticed. Since the beginning of the 1990s, a series of legislative initiatives and statements, both on the national level and on the part of international...
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of...
The French philosopher Michel Foucault is by now the most cited author in the social sciences and humanities. This book discusses one of his central notions that attracted enormous interest inside and outside academia: governmentality. It reconstructs its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power and shows its trajectory in his work. The book explores the theoretical strengths and critical perspectives the concept of governmentality offers in light of contemporary societal and political challenges, including those posed by genetic and reproductive technologies. It also illuminates some...
The French philosopher Michel Foucault is by now the most cited author in the social sciences and humanities. This book discusses one of his central n...
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of -biopolitics- has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic.
Lemke...
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establish...
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of -biopolitics- has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic.
Lemke...
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establish...
-Vergesst Foucault - so lautete die provokante Aufforderung Jean Baudrillards Ende der 1970er Jahre. Ein Vierteljahrhundert spater ist die sozialwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des franzosischen Historikers und Philosophen intensiver denn je. Zwei Konzepte haben in den vergangenen Jahren die Rezeption in besonderer Weise gepragt: Gouvernementalitat und Biopolitik. Der Band erkundet die gegenwartsdiagnostische Reichweite und die soziologische Relevanz der beiden Konzepte. Er zeichnet ihre Entstehungskontexte und Bedeutungsdimensionen nach und diskutiert Perspektiven und...
-Vergesst Foucault - so lautete die provokante Aufforderung Jean Baudrillards Ende der 1970er Jahre. Ein Vierteljahrhundert spater ist die sozialwisse...
The French philosopher Michel Foucault is by now the most cited author in the social sciences and humanities. This book discusses one of his central notions that attracted enormous interest inside and outside academia: governmentality. It reconstructs its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power and shows its trajectory in his work. The book explores the theoretical strengths and critical perspectives the concept of governmentality offers in light of contemporary societal and political challenges, including those posed by genetic and reproductive technologies. It also illuminates some...
The French philosopher Michel Foucault is by now the most cited author in the social sciences and humanities. This book discusses one of his central n...
Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten umfassenden und systematischen Untersuchung genetischer Diskriminierung in Deutschland. Das empirische Material besteht aus einer Fragebogenerhebung und aus Interviews mit Betroffenen verschiedener genetisch bedingter Erkrankungen. Es zeigt, wie das genetische Wissen mit Krankungen, Schuldzuweisungen und Stigmatisierungen einhergeht und Vorstellungen einer "genetischen Verantwortung" mobilisiert. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse legen die Revision des klassischen Begriffs von genetischer Diskriminierung nahe und fordern zu einer Neuausrichtung der...
Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten umfassenden und systematischen Untersuchung genetischer Diskriminierung in Deutschland. Das empirische ...
Die Autoren rekonstruieren den sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsstand zu gesellschaftlichen Implikationen der Praimplantationsdiagnostik (PID) und identifizieren u.a. folgende Problemkomplexe: eine Expansion der PID in neue Anwendungsfelder, eine Verfestigung sozialer Ungleichheiten sowie einen Wandel normativer Erwartungen hin zur Vorstellung einer genetischen Reproduktionsverantwortung. Diese konvergiert mit einer individualisierenden Praventionslogik, die gegenwartige Transformationsprozesse der Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik kennzeichnet.
Die Autoren rekonstruieren den sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsstand zu gesellschaftlichen Implikationen der Praimplantationsdiagnostik (PID) und i...
