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Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance - A Foucauldian Critique (Paperback)
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Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance - A Foucauldian Critique (Paperback)
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Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore
the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the
so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power
relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing
issues of genetic privacy and discrimination in the context of
neoliberal governance, this book demonstrates and explains the
mechanisms of mutual production between biotechnology and cultural,
political, economic and legal frameworks. In the first part
Antoinette Rouvroy explores the social, political and economic
conditions and consequences of this new 'perceptual regime'. In the
second she pursues her analysis through a consideration of the
impact of 'geneticization' on political support of the welfare
state and on the operation of private health and life insurances.
Genetics and neoliberalism, she argues, are complicit in fostering
the belief that social and economic patterns have a fixed nature
beyond the reach of democratic deliberation, whilst the
characteristics of individuals are unusually plastic, and within
the scope of individual choice and responsibility. This book will
be of interest to all students of law, sociology and politics.
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