Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique
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Antoinette Rouvroy
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Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique
By Antoinette Rouvroy
- Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Date: 2007-11-06
- ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415444330
- ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415444330
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Originaland interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore therelationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-calledgenetic revolution.
Looking at the knowledge-powerrelations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues ofgenetic privacy and discrimination in the context of neoliberalgovernance, this book demonstrates and explains the mechanisms ofmutual production between [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]biotechnology and cultural, political, economic and legal frameworks.
In the fist part Antoinette Rouvroy explores the social, political and [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]economicconditions and consequences of this new perceptual regime. In thesecond she pursues her analysis through a consideration of the impactof geneticisation on political support of the welfare state and on theoperation of private health and [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]life [color=orange ! important]insurances.Genetics and neoliberalism, she argues, are complicit in fostering thebelief that social and economic patterns have a fixed nature beyond thereach of democratic deliberation, whilst the characteristics ofindividuals are unusually plastic, and within the scope of individualchoice and responsibility.
This book will be of interest to all to all students of law, sociology and politics.
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