Bioethics and Biopolitics

Part I. Concepts: Biopolitics and Biopower

1. Biopolitics and Biopower: The Foucauldian Approach and Its Contemporary Relevance
Ádám Takács

Part II. Applications: Contemporary Biopolitics and Bioethical Issues

2. From Biopower to Empower – How to Get Plump, or Why Do We Choose What We Choose?
Ignaas Devisch

3. Biological or Democratic Citizenship
Vilhjálmur Árnason

4. Chronic Disorders of Consciousness and Homo Sacer

Andrew Edgar

5. Biopolitics and the Longevity of Left-Handers
Gardar Arnason

6. The “Me Molecule”
Judit Sándor

Part III. Connections: Bioethics and Biopolitics

7. Can Boethics Escape from Biopolitics?
Henk ten Have

8. Bioethics as Politics
Tuija Takala

9. On the Relationship Between Bioethics and Biopolitics: What Bioethics Can Learn from Biopolitics
Darryl Gunson

Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medical Law, Sociology, general