Technicians of human dignity : bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth

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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 digni...

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Main Author: Bennett, Gaymon, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Series:Just ideas.
Subjects:
United Nations.
United Nations
Vatican Council > (2nd : > 1962-1965 : > Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). > Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis.
Vatican Council > (2nd : > 1962-1965 : > Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) > Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis
Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis (Vatican Council)
Respect for persons.
Bioethics.
Human rights.
Personhood
Human Rights
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Value of Life
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Human rights
Respect for persons
Anthropology
politics
bioethics
respect for persons
human rights
Biotechnology
Dignity
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Ontology
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Table of Contents:
  • Human Dignity and the Vatican
  • The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power
  • The Ontology of Vocation: Gaudium et spes
  • Human Dignity and the United Nations
  • Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights
  • Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Diagnostic Excursus: Economies of Life and Power
  • Human Dignity and the President's Council on Bioethics
  • Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics
  • The Biopolitical Pastoral: Beyond Therapy
  • Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration.

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