IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Biopower

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: IUF 1000
• Professor: Stephanie M Boothby

Document Summary

We want to get the most holistic complex understanding of issues. Social and cultural questions of the unprecedented control that we have over life. Not what can we do but what ought we do: not nitty gritty or technological approaches, but what are the social and cultural questions that arise in medicine. Embodying: the physical body, physical health, physical appearance involved in the pursuit of, a(cid:271)ility to li(cid:448)e a (cid:862)good life(cid:863) Vie(cid:449)s of physi(cid:272)al health a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eauty i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t our a(cid:271)ility to li(cid:448)e a (cid:862)good life(cid:863) Ideas of (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) & (cid:862)differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863), a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) they i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e our se(cid:374)se of (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g. Ideas that change over time and plays: where do we draw these lines between what is normal and abnormal, what implications do the definition of normal have on our lives. Philosophical study of ethical issues related to practice of science and medicine: diverse approaches brought to the questions, different prospective. One concept that they (bioethicists) all agree on is autonomy.