FROM THE ADMINISTERED BODY TO THE SIGNIFYING BODY: BIOETHICS, BIOPOLITICS, AND THE SACRED IN THE MEDICALIZATION OF MATERNITY.
The article proposes a reflection on the relations between bioethics, biopolitics, and the medicalization of social life, starting from the thesis that bioethics lacking biopolitical awareness remains naïve, while a biopolitics lacking ethical reflection becomes cynical. On the basis of Foucault's d...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies Vol. 25; no. 74; pp. 78 - 101 |
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