Conclusion: Contemporary Challenges in Czech Reproductive Biomedicine
Conclusion: Contemporary Challenges in Czech Reproductive Biomedicine

Author(s): Iva Šmídová, Lenka Slepičková, Eva Šlesingerová
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Reproductive Biomedicine; Czech Republic; Modernism; Technology and science; Biosocieties;
Summary/Abstract: Czech reproductive biomedicine is the bearer of the legacy of modernism, with its admiration for figures, technology, and science. It is also part of the late-modern deep social and cultural transformations that establish biosocieties or biosociality, as described by Paul Rabinow (Rabinow 1996). These transformations are not revolutionary; they are rather the product of the intensification of power that is inscribed in the very foundationsof modernity/the modern society. The power is biopower, which names, creates and controls life at the level of populations as well as at an individual level.

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