biofascism
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[edit]biofascism (uncountable)
- Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.
- 2001, Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society[1], page 164:
- Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.
- 2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth Essays[2], page 109:
- The roots of biofascism—the ideological celebration of the family—are deep in American political culture.
- 2016, Stuart J. Murray, “The Perils of Scientific Obedience: Bioethics under the Spectre of Biofascism”, in David Holmes, editor, Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics, page 104:
- In other words, biofascism invites, if it does not demand, a totalitarian obedience to scientific authority, to the ideological political economic coordinates of neoliberalism, and to the cultural science fiction of genetic "truth."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:biofascism.