Review of: Julia Diekämper: Reproduziertes Leben. Biomacht in Zeiten der Präimplantationsdiagnostik. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2011.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/1014Keywords:
Ethik, Kultur, Macht, Medien, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
With her study, Julia Diekämper shows how preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has become a fiercely disputed topic of medial negotiations. Based on a comparison of the discussion in German and French print media, she illustrates (in Foucauldian terms) how a discoursive controversy on PGD happens. The study impresses with its clearly structured empirical section, which draws a geological map of the PGD-discourse. This also underlines the current pertinence of the term biopower. However, the study fails to offer a step towards a genealogy. Thus, the study remains on the descriptive level; it does not implement the questioning of power relations, always postulated by Foucault, but it offers profound material for such questioning.
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2012-04-13
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