Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique
By Antoinette Rouvroy
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2007-11-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415444330
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415444330
Binding: Hardcover
Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution.
Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination in the context of neoliberal governance, this book demonstrates and explains the mechanisms of mutual production between biotechnology and cultural, political, economic and legal frameworks.
In the fist part Antoinette Rouvroy explores the social, political and economic conditions and consequences of this new perceptual regime. In the second she pursues her analysis through a consideration of the impact of geneticisation on political support of the welfare state and on the operation of private health and life insurances. Genetics and neoliberalism, she argues, are complicit in fostering the belief that social and economic patterns have a fixed nature beyond the reach of democratic deliberation, whilst the characteristics of individuals are unusually plastic, and within the scope of individual choice and responsibility.
This book will be of interest to all to all students of law, sociology and politics.
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