LEADER 02598nam 22005413a 450 001 9910136935303321 005 20230124193633.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000657020 035 $a(OCoLC)925397714 035 $a(ScCtBLL)d379c53f-a84d-4e83-b4dd-f2912a1f271b 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38543 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000657020 100 $a20211214i20162017 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aTechnicians of Human Dignity : $eBodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth /$fGaymon Bennett 210 $cFordham University Press$d2016 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 311 $a0-8232-7488-8 330 $aTechnicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power. Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions- the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics- re-conceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 606 $aSocial Science$2bisacsh 606 $aPolitical Science$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 610 $aAnthropology 610 $apolitics 610 $abioethics 610 $arespect for persons 610 $ahuman rights 610 $aBiotechnology 610 $aDignity 610 $aMichel Foucault 610 $aModernity 610 $aOntology 610 $aUnited Nations 615 7$aSocial Science 615 7$aPolitical Science 615 0$aSocial sciences 700 $aBennett$b Gaymon$01071136 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136935303321 996 $aTechnicians of Human Dignity$92565943 997 $aUNINA