Productive and Reproductive (Bio)Power: Thinking over Reproductive Medicine in the Czech Republic

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Productive and Reproductive (Bio)Power: Thinking over Reproductive Medicine in the Czech Republic
Original language description
The ambition of the proposed paper is to present a work in progress research concentrating on Czech praxes in the field of reproductive medicine. Particularly it introduces its subfields of assisted reproduction, embryo and DNA manipulation and practicesconcerning childbirth. The team is at the beginning of a four year research project (supported by the Czech Science Agency 2011 - 2014) thematising the concept of biopower in relation to the contemporary Czech reproductive medicine. The researchers concentrate on analytical tools grasping the means by which hegemony of modern western medicine (biomedicine) and its power are applied and negotiated in the fields of human reproduction, and they offer them for critical discussion here. These concepts/toolsencompass biopower and biopolitics as analytical images of means of governance and administration of modern population Foucault 1999, governmentality Foucault 1999, medicalization Conrad 1992, Illich 1976 and authoritative knowledge Jord
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F11%2F0621" target="_blank" >GAP404/11/0621: Childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. A sociological analysis of current reproductive medicine in the CR.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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