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Race, reproduction, and biopolitics: A review essay

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posted on 2021-01-06, 00:00 authored by Christopher MayesChristopher Mayes
This review essay critically examines Catherine Mills’s Biopolitics (2018) and Camisha Russell’s The Assisted Reproduction of Race (2018). Although distinct works, the centrality of race and reproduction provides a point of connection and an opening into reframing contemporary debates within bioethics and biopolitics. In reviewing these books together I hope to show how biopolitical theory and critical philosophy of race can be useful in looking at bioethical problems from a new perspective that open up different kinds of analyses, especially around historically embedded problems like institutional racism and the legacies of colonialism in healthcare.

History

Journal

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Issue

Symposium: Institutional Racism, Whiteness, and Bioethics

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Location

Dordrecht, Netherlands

ISSN

1176-7529

eISSN

1872-4353

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2021, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry