Курс: Biopower, Biopolitics and the Changing Discourses of Biological Differences

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The goal of the course is to critically reflect the (bio)medical discourses on body, health and ʽnormalityʾ. The course explores how the representations of sex, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality are constructed in those discourses and how are they reflected in the practice of medicine as social institution. The aim of the course is to critically evaluate the relationship between techniques of (bio)power and scientific knowledge concerning body and health and how those knowledge help to reproduce or deconstruct various forms of inequalities.
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Select section 1. Body and the discourses of biomedicine

1. Body and the discourses of biomedicine
Select section 2. The concept of ʽnormalityʾ in natural sciences

2. The concept of ʽnormalityʾ in natural sciences
Select section 3. Producing the knowledge about body and nature – the role of historical and social context

3. Producing the knowledge about body and nature – the role of historical and social context
Select section 4. Biological determinism and social sciences

4. Biological determinism and social sciences
Select section 5. Changes in discourses on sex differences

5. Changes in discourses on sex differences
Select section 6. Concepts of ʽnaturalʾ biological difference

6. Concepts of ʽnaturalʾ biological difference
Select section 7. Research on sex and gender differences

7. Research on sex and gender differences
Select section 8. Body, power and control

8. Body, power and control
Select section 9. Biopower

9. Biopower
Select section 10. Biopolitics

10. Biopolitics
Select section 11. Changing faces of biopolitics in twenty-first century

11. Changing faces of biopolitics in twenty-first century
Select section 12. Techniques of biopolitics: eugenics, Chinaʼs one-child policy

12. Techniques of biopolitics: eugenics, Chinaʼs one-child policy
Select section 13. Techniques of biopolitics: prenatal testing

13. Techniques of biopolitics: prenatal testing
Select section 14. Challenges to contemporary bioethics

14. Challenges to contemporary bioethics