03409nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-319-57324-3 DE-He213 20210619194443.0 cr nn 008mamaa 170526s2017 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783319573243 978-3-319-57324-3 10.1007/978-3-319-57324-3 doi B67 PDA bicssc SCI075000 bisacsh PDA thema 501 23 Tratnik, Polona. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Conquest of Body [electronic resource] : Biopower with Biotechnology / by Polona Tratnik. 1st ed. 2017. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017. XVIII, 100 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, 2211-4548 Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Mapping, Knowing, Mastering -- Body Prints and Identification -- Solution of Life -- Biopower of Biotechnology -- Bibliography -- Index. This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology. The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain knowledge of it and to conquer it. Exploration of body has an intrinsic link to power, since knowledge is constitutive for the power over the body. Ultimately the conquest of body means the power to intervene into life processes. The book breaks new ground with its study of body visualizations, from the Renaissance drawings to the medical imaging. In particular, it investigates their complex mediality. It also considers the extension and the reach of biopower that is now possible thanks to a wide range of engineering applications. The author originally questions the research approach by rethinking the relationship between mental and sensual examination. She takes into consideration the epistemological problem of the two modes of exploration: obtaining knowledge from empirical exploration and projecting that knowledge to the object of exploration. Philosophy and science. Aesthetics. Epistemology. Philosophy of Science. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 Aesthetics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E11000 Epistemology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/A11007 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783319573236 Printed edition: 9783319573250 SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, 2211-4548 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57324-3 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR Religion and Philosophy (SpringerNature-41175) Philosophy and Religion (R0) (SpringerNature-43725)