The first book to investigate the diffuse relationship between bioethics and biopolitics in contemporary social settings

Brings together a group of top scholars linking various concepts of biopolitics to the much debated issues of bioethics

Provides the reader with major insights and orientation in the different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics

Autorentext

Péter Kakuk is a philosopher, bioethicists currently teaching at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is research associate at the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine at the Central European University and he is member of the Medical Research Council of Hungary. His publications focused on various issues related to current debates in bioethics and modern philosophy.

Inhalt
Introduction to the volume: Perspectives on biopolitics and bioethics; Péter Kakuk.- Biopolitics and Biopower. The Foucauldian Heritage in the Light of the Contemporary Usage; Takács, Ádám.- How to get plump, or why do we choose what we choose?; Devisch, Ignaas.- preface:Theories of biopolitics and bioethical issues; Péter Kakuk.- Biological or Democratic Citizenship?; Árnason, Vilhjálmur.- Biopolitics and the Longevity of Lefthanders ; Arnason, Gardar.- Chronic Disorders of Consciousness and Homo Sacer; Edgar, Andrew.- Government, Big Pharma and the Exercise of Biopower: The ethical acceptability of lobbying and promotion; Badcott, David.- preface: Biopolitics and legal discourse; Péter Kakuk.- The ME MOLECULE; Sándor, Judit.- Of Emerging Life in Law: the European Story; Selkälä, Toni.- Beyond bioethics and biopolitics? Doing privacy ethics in whole Genome sequencing research; Schickhardt, Christoph & Winker, Eva C.- preface: Questions of relatedness: bioethics and biopolitics; PéterKakuk.- Can bioethics escape from biopolitics?; ten Have, Henk.- Bioethics as politics Takala, Tuija.- On the relationship between bioethics and biopolitics; Gunson, Darryl. <p