TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Gaymon
TI  - Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth 
SN  - 9780823274888
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Social Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power. Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions- the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics- re-conceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d379c53f-a84d-4e83-b4dd-f2912a1f271b
ER  -