Citations:biofascism

English citations of biofascism and bio-fascism

Noun: "fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements"

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• 1987, Exquisite Corpse, Volumes 5-7, page 10:

  Surely because every neurotic stereotype about the bio-fascism of illness, its cold war invasionary character, about the power and the glory of medical science itself and therefore about one's own utter and final helplessness in the face of it all is here brought to the pitch of a siren in full alarm.

• 1996, Scott L. Montgomery, The Scientific Voice, page 65:

  This would inevitably turn up a rank-and-file nomenclature among which would occur such terms as “killer T-cells,” “suppressor T-cells,” “natural killer cells,” “T-cell proliferation,” “target cell,” “invasin,” to name but a few. Far from being “pure and simple,” these terms are literally saturated with cultural attitude. They bleed with our societal terror of disease (illness as biofascism), our anger at it, and our intent to deal with it not through visions of growth or healing but rather those of war.

• 2001, Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society, page 164:

  Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.

• 2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth Essays, 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 Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics (ed. David Holmes), 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."

• 2021, Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroker, Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social, page 5:

  That reality is bio-fascism. The signs are everywhere. A friend from New York texts me to express her concern about how quickly people are eager to surrender civil liberties in the face of the pandemic.