Overview

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.

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Reviewed in: PW-Portal, 4 (2012), Anja-Franke Schwenk

Reviewed in: PW-Portal, 4 (2012), Anja-Franke Schwenk

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Kathrin Braun lehrt und forscht am Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Risiko- und Innovationsforschung (ZIRIUS) und am Lehrstuhl für Technik- und Umweltsoziologie der Universität Stuttgart.

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