If you have been reading or listening to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY since at least earlier this year, you will know that my previous posts about nursing homes and COVID-19 (here, here, and here) helped to expose the terrible situation in these institutions with respect to the pandemic in particular and drew attention to the institutionalization of […]
Philosophy, The Apparatus of Disability, and the #EugenicsSyllabus Project
In the fifth chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I argue that bioethics is a strategy of modern eugenics. In earlier articles—such as “Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment In Utero” and “Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What’s Still Missing From the Stem Cell Debates”—I pointed out ways in which the […]
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