Project information: A sociological analysis of current reproductive medicine in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | There are only few projects in the region of Czech Republic analysing issues of health and illness from a critical social-science perspective. The text introduces one of them, choosing the Czech reproductive medicine as its core analytical field. The aim of this short research project presentation is to initiate international collaboration and critical debate on the issues under study, so – kind readers - do not hesitate to let us know, discuss the theme with us. Our research is supported by The Czech Science Foundation for four years (2011 – 2014; GAP404/11/0621). The core areas of study are childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. The core analytical tools are biopower, biopolitics and governmentality. The research team deals with current reproductive medicine in the Czech Republic and focuses on biomedicine, as a concrete manifestation of this form of normalization of modern society in the Western approach to human health and illness (Cahill 2001). It is based on the concept of biopower as an analytical idea of a method of governance and administration of a modern population (Foucault 1978). |
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