Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth

Gaymon Bennett

Open Access Published by Fordham University Press 2015

Technicians of Human Dignity

Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth

Gaymon Bennett

In the series Just Ideas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823267798

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About this book

Tracks the development of the concept of human dignity in post-war ethics and politics, focusing on the Vatican, the United Nations, and U.S. Federal Bioethics.

Author / Editor information

Bennett Gaymon :

Gaymon Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology at Arizona State University. He is co-author, with Paul Rabinow, of Designing Human Practices: An Experiment with Synthetic Biology and, with Ted Peters and Karen Lebacqz, of Sacred Cells? Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research.

Reviews

—Whitney Bauman:
"This book is a very timely analysis of the invocation and role of appeals to 'human dignity' in the 20th/21st century.”

—James Faubion:
“Technicians of Human Dignity is an analytical powerhouse; it commands admiration.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: The Motion of Inquiry Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
introduction. Figuring Human Dignity Open Access Download PDF	1
1. The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power Open Access Download PDF	25
2. The Ontology of Vocation: Gaudium et spes Open Access Download PDF	63
II. Human Dignity and the United Nations
3. Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights Open Access Download PDF	107
4. Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Open Access Download PDF	134
diagnostic excursus. Economies of Life and Power Open Access Download PDF	165
III. Human Dignity and the President’s Council on Bioethics
5. Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics Open Access Download PDF	201
6. The Biopolitical Pastoral: Beyond Therapy Open Access Download PDF	238
Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration Open Access Download PDF	275
Notes Open Access Download PDF	287
Index Open Access Download PDF	313

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 338
Keywords: Human Dignity; biopower; Bioethics; Vatican II; Commission on Human Rights; President's Council on Bioethics; human rights; anthropology

eBook

Published: November 23, 2015
ISBN: 9780823267798