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1Liberal Eugenics, Human Enhancement and the Concept of the NormalIn Darian Meacham (ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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33A Manner of Speaking: Declaration, Critique and the Trope of InterrogationLaw and Critique 21 (3): 247--260. 2010.In this paper I will argue for the ethical and political virtue of a form of critique associated with the work of Michel Foucault. Foucault’s tryptich of essays on critique---namely ”What is Critique?’ ”What is Revolution?’ and ”What is Enlightenment?’---develop a formulation of critique understood as an attitude or disposition, a kind of relation that one bears to oneself and to the actuality of the present. I suggest that this critical attitude goes hand in hand with a mode of intellectual pra…Read more
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412. Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and ResponsibilityIn Moya Lloyd (ed.), Butler and Ethics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 41-64. 2015.
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14BiopoliticsRoutledge. 2017.The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. This includes discussions of the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, R…Read more
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102Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and BiopoliticsSpringer. 2011.Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to ‘choose children’, present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the ways that social norms affect decisions about who is born. The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of …Read more
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42The Case of the Missing Hand: Gender, Disability, and Bodily Norms in Selective TerminationHypatia 30 (1): 82-96. 2015.The practice of terminating a pregnancy following the diagnosis of a fetal abnormality raises questions about notions of bodily normality and the ways these shape ethical decision-making. This is particularly the case with terminations done on the basis of ostensibly minor morphological anomalies, such as cleft lip and isolated malformations of the limbs or digits. In this paper, I examine a recent case of selective termination after a morphology ultrasound scan revealed the fetus to be missing …Read more
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1Linguistic survival and ethicality: Biopolitics, subjectivation, and testimony in remnants of auschwitzIn Andrew Norris (ed.), Politics, metaphysics, and death: essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo sacer, Duke University Press. 2005.
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29Philosophy of AgambenAcumen Publishing. 2008.About the Author:Catherine Mills is lecturer in philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney
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39Review of Annika thiem, Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (12). 2008.
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