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Author Bennett, Gaymon, 1972- author.

Title Technicians of human dignity : bodies, souls, and the making of intrinsic worth / Gaymon Bennett
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 337 pages)
Series Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
Just ideas.
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
Summary 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
Analysis Anthropology
politics
bioethics
respect for persons
human rights
Biotechnology
Dignity
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Ontology
United Nations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 14, 2021)
Subject United Nations.
SUBJECT United Nations
United Nations fast
Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83067715
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) fast
Subject Respect for persons.
Bioethics.
Human rights.
Personhood
Human Rights
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Value of Life
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Bioethics
Human rights
Respect for persons
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020301243
ISBN 9780823267804
0823267806
9780823267798
0823267792
0823267784
9780823267781