Bioethics and Biopolitics: Theories, Applications and Connections

Péter Kakuk (Editor)

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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.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherSpringer Cham
Number of pages135
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-66249-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-66247-3, 978-3-319-88206-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameAdvancing Global Bioethics ; 8.

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