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100 1 _aBennett, Gaymon
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245 1 0 _aTechnicians of Human Dignity
260 _bFordham University Press
_c2016
300 _a1 electronic resource (336 p.)
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520 _aTechnicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power. Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions —the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics—reconceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice.
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650 7 _aMedical ethics & professional conduct
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653 _aAnthropology
653 _apolitics
653 _abioethics
653 _arespect for persons
653 _ahuman rights
653 _aBiotechnology
653 _aDignity
653 _aMichel Foucault
653 _aModernity
653 _aOntology
653 _aUnited Nations
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