Race, Reproduction, and Biopolitics: A Review Essay

AbstractThis review essay critically examines Catherine Mills ’sBiopolitics (2018) and Camisha Russell ’sThe Assisted Reproduction of Race (2018). Although distinct works, the centrality of race and reproduction provides a point of connection and an opening into reframing contemporary debates within bioethicsand biopolitics. In reviewing these books together I hope to show how biopolitical theory and critical philosophy of race can be useful in looking at bioethical problems from a new perspective that open up different kinds of analyses, especially around historically embedded problems like institutional racism and the legacies of colonialism in healthcare.
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research