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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 120)

Editors: Meacham, Darian

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9

ISBN: 978-94-017-9869-3

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

May 23, 2015

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Liberal Eugenics, Human Enhancement and the Concept of the Normal

Mills, Catherine

Pages: 179 –194

[In this chapter, I examine the uses to which the concept of the normal is put in debates on liberal eugenics and human enhancement. I discuss three particular approaches to human nature and the normal: Jürgen Habermas’s emphasis on human nature as a normative concept that grounds the moral...
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Was Canguilhem a Biochauvinist? Goldstein, Canguilhem and the Project of Biophilosophy

Wolfe, Charles T.

Pages: 197 –212

[Georges Canguilhem is known to have regretted, with some pathos, that life no longer serves as an orienting question in our scientific activity. He also frequently insisted on a kind of uniqueness of organisms and/or living bodies—their inherent normativity, their value-production and overall...
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Of (Auto-)Immune Life: Derrida, Esposito, Agamben

Lewis, Michael

Pages: 213 –231

[Why is there such a marked preference for speaking of bio-ethics rather than bio-politics, in traditional Anglophone analytic philosophy? It is as if life were something pure and unscathed, wholly natural and naturally whole, uncontaminated by politics, law, and power. It is the task of this...
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The Psychopathology of Space: A Phenomenological Critique of Solitary Confinement

Guenther, Lisa

Pages: 233 –250

[Many prisoners in solitary confinement experience symptoms such as anxiety, paranoia, insomnia, headaches, hallucinations and other perceptual distortions. While psychiatric accounts of the effects of supermax confinement are important, especially in a legal context, they are insufficient to...
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The Right to Be Impaired and the Legacy of Eugenics: A Critical Reading of the UN Convention on “Disability” Rights

van den Anker, Christien

Pages: 253 –270

[The links between medicine and society can be viewed from many perspectives yet their relationship should always be seen as contested and political. Here I use human rights as my starting point. A sociological account of human rightsHuman rights should address the contested human rights...
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Being Machine: Two Competing Models for Neuroprosthesis

Shores, Corry

Pages: 271 –294

[Andy Clark’s and David Chalmers’s “extended mind hypothesis” provides a theoretical account for our bodily and cognitive extension into external technologies like medical prosthetics. Clark as well as therapeutic prosthetic researchers draw from Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the body to explain...
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From “Enhancement Medicine” to “Anthropotechnology”

Allouche, Sylvie

Pages: 295 –315

[Techniques developed within medical practice seem to be more and more easily exported into contexts where the medical, which is to say therapeutic, aim is disputable or even explicitly denied. This situation has progressively led to a broadening of the scope of medicine in order to include these...

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