biofascism
nounEtymology From bio- + fascism.
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Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.
- Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.2001, Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society, page 164:
- The roots of biofascism—the ideological celebration of the family—are deep in American political culture.2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth Essays, page 109:
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- 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."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:
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