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Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
Kathrin . Ed(S): Braun
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Description for Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
Paperback. Editor(s): Braun, Kathrin. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney.
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 technologies. Crossing a variety of fields from birthing, genetic counselling, living wills, hospital ethics, to population policies and politics of biomedicine, it shows that medicine and medicine-related policies and practices form crucial arenas of these transformations. What we see emerging is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837617474
SKU
V9783837617474
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About Kathrin . Ed(S): Braun
Kathrin Braun is professor (apl. Prof.) in Political Science at the University of Hanover (Germany) and an academic nomad whose work focuses on biopolitical modern rationality, its transformations and re-instantiations in past and present.
Reviews for Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
Reviewed in: PW-Portal, 4 (2012), Anja-Franke Schwenk