My fellow BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger, Mich Ciurria, often uses the term cry-baby to refer to the privileged nondisabled white men who populate philosophy in the US and complain about the (flailing) democratization of the profession there. Yet Canada has its own share of cry-babies in philosophy, in academia more broadly, and elsewhere, as a survey […]
Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies on MAiD (vol. 13, no. 2, 2024)
I am very happy to inform you that Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) has published a special issue on the theme “Medical Assistance in Dying; Resistance in Canada”. The issue comprises testimonials of many of the leading theorists and activists who publicly organize against MAiD and the very real dangers that the eugenic policies […]
Against Bioethics, Medically Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
This post comprises a collection of (most of) my past posts about medically assisted suicide, the eugenic impetus of bioethics, and Bill C-7 in Canada. The posts are arranged chronologically in descending order beginning with the most recent relevant post from May 1.
MAiD, (Canadian) Bioethicists, and the Banality of Evil
Two or three generations from now, philosophers will look back in horror and shame at the role that Canadian bioethicists and philosophers played in the normalization of medically assisted suicide (a.k.a. MAiD) in Canada. In the seventh-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability that I posted last month, Isaac Jiang, with whom I composed the installment, […]
Bioethics (and) MAID in Canada
Bioethicists in Canada (and elsewhere) have played a significant role in the formulation and implementation of legislation that has steadily expanded the scope of what counts as acceptable with respect to medically-assisted death, that is, which medically-assisted deaths should be regarded as acceptable to the Canadian public, whose deaths, and why. Some of these (and […]
Is “The Right to Die” Racialized Biopolitics?
[This post originally appeared at the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog which is now defunct In one respect, the title of the post was redundant: biopolitics are always racialized.] _________________________________________________ My post earlier in the week drew attention to the imbrication of the sub-field of bioethics in the workings of biopower and neoliberal biopolitics. I noted how biopolitics […]
The Biopolitics of Bioethics
[This post originally appeared at the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog which is now defunct.] In a chapter of my forthcoming book, I argue that (most of the) claims advanced in the sub-field of mainstream bioethics and even feminist bioethics rely upon an outdated conception of power that manifests in ideas about “choice,” “informed consent,” and […]
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