Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and Biopolitics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789400736337)

1. Introduction
Disability, Gender and Selective Termination
Liberal Eugenics
What is biopolitics?

2. Normal life: liberal eugenics, value pluralism and normalisation
Introduction
Shaping People: human enhancement and normality
What is normalisation?
The vitality of social norms
Conclusion

3. Reproductive autonomy as self-making
Introduction
The presumptive priority of reproductive liberty
Enacting freedom: the ethical practice of reproductive autonomy
Conclusion

4. The limits of reproductive autonomy: prenatal testing, harm and disability
Introduction
Disability, harm and the non-identity problem
The expressivist critique of prenatal testing: a defense
Conclusion

5. Reproducing alterity: ethical subjectivity and genetic screening
Introduction
Genetic selection and ethical self-understanding
Natality, corporeality, singularity
Screening singularity
Conclusion

6. Ultrasound, embodiment and abortion
Introduction
Ultrasound images and the sympathetic imagination
The social production of sympathy: biopolitical reproduction
The ethical demand of embodied appearance: relationality and responsibility
Conclusion

7. Final Remarks

Author: Catherine Mills
ISBN-10: 9400736339
ISBN-13: 9789400736337
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2013
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d