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oapen-20.500.12657-300682024-03-25T09:51:46Z Technicians of Human Dignity Bennett, Gaymon Anthropology politics bioethics respect for persons human rights Biotechnology Dignity Michel Foucault Modernity Ontology United Nations thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct Technicians 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-01-09 10:29:38 2020-04-01T12:44:12Z 2020-04-01T12:44:12Z 2016 book 650032 OCN: 1000370624 9780823274888 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30068 eng application/pdf n/a 650032.pdf http://fordhampress.com/index.php/technicians-of-human-dignity-cloth.html Fordham University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_605861 103437 10.26530/OAPEN_605861 f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823274888 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 336 103436 KU Round 2 605861 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Technicians 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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