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Title: BIOPOLITICS, ETHICS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE


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BIOPOLITICS, ETHICS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
  • João Arriscado Nunes
  • CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO
  • FACULDADE DE ECONOMIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
  • jan_at_ces.uc.pt

2
Biopower and biopolitics
  • Truth discourses about the vital character of
    living human beings
  • Array of authorities considered competent to
    speak the truth
  • Strategies for intervention upon collective
    existence in the name of life and health
  • Modes of subjectification individuals work on
    themselves in the name of individual or
    collective life or health
  • (Rabinow and Rose, 2003)

3
Postgenomic biomedicine and changing conceptions
of the biological and of biopolitics
  • From deterministic to open-ended and dynamic
    conceptions of biological complexity
  • From Biology as Destiny to biology as
    changeable, repairable and optimizable
    through technoscientific interventions

4
The rise of the somatic citizen
  • Health as a responsibility of individuals
  • Risk and susceptibility the emergence of the
    healthy, pre- or a-symptomatic ill
  • Optimization and the promissory notes of
    regenerative medicine

5
Biosocialities and biocapital
  • The somatic citizen and his/her attachments to
    medicine and professionals
  • The emergence of new collectives based on the
    sharing of biological conditions (e.g., patient
    associations, platforms, coalitions, social
    movements in health)
  • The rise of biocapital and of a new political
    economy of life itself (public and private
    support of RD, role of startups, venture
    capital, big pharma, medical-industrial complex)

6
Ethical/biopolitical challenges
  • Codes vs regulation
  • Regulation of stem cell research and of the use
    of human embryos in research
  • Regulation of research on biomedical innovations
    involving human subjects
  • (Contested) boundaries of the human
  • The politics of health care in the postgenomic
    era priorities, limited resources, inequalities
    and access, protection of patients/citizens

7
Biopolitical responses
  • International instruments (declarations, EU
    directives)
  • Self-regulation (scientists, medical profession)
  • Market regulation
  • National legislation
  • Bioethics committees
  • Public engagement initiatives
  • Collective action
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