biofascism

English

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Etymology

bio- +‎ fascism

Noun

biofascism (uncountable)

  1. Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.
    • 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 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.
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