Author : Kathrin Braun
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839417473
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Book Synopsis Between Self-Determination and Social Technology by : Kathrin Braun
Download or read book Between Self-Determination and Social Technology written by Kathrin Braun and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.