Stem Cells: Where the Newest Technology Meets the Oldest Profession
Amid the recent public furore over therapeutic cloning, this paper claims that woman's position, as the holder of the eggs, has been consistently overlooked. In view of this, the paper seeks to explore what therapeutic cloning might mean for woman as the potential donor, through undertaking a c...
| Published in: | Theology & sexuality |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2005
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Theology & sexuality
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| Summary: | Amid the recent public furore over therapeutic cloning, this paper claims that woman's position, as the holder of the eggs, has been consistently overlooked. In view of this, the paper seeks to explore what therapeutic cloning might mean for woman as the potential donor, through undertaking a critical discourse analysis of a BBC documentary film entitled Creation. The method of discourse analysis utilized in this case, draws on the poststructural, Foucauldian insights which have established that a dynamic relationship exisls between power, knowledge, discourse and the subject. By analysing selected tianscripts from this perspective, it is possible to demonstrate how opposing fractured, antagonistic and everyday discourses concerning woman can correlate to sut the purposes of biocapitalism. The paper suggests that Practical Theology can call upon scriptural narratives as a source of prophetic challenge, as these are enriched by contemplative mirrors and brakes to human behaviour that are not contained in the futuristic visions of popular scientific discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1355835805051880 |