Biological Citizenship in the Reliability Democracy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2001024LKeywords:
reliability democracy, Autism Spectrum, epistemic injustice, biological citizens, expertsAbstract
In this paper, I shall present the theoretical view on the reliability democracy as presented in Prijić Samaržija’s book Democracy and Truth (2018), and examine its validity through the case of the division of epistemic labour in the process of deliberation on autism treatment policies. It may appear that because of their strong demands, namely, the demand for rejection of medical authority and for exclusive expertise on autism, autistic individuals gathered around the neurodiversity movement present a threat to the reliability democracy.
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Kristina Lekić
Baron-Cohen, S. et al. (2009) „Talent in Autism: Hyper-systemizing, Hyper-attention to Detail and Sensory Hypersensitivity“, Philosophical Transcription of the Royal Society London B, 364: 1377–1383.
Christiano, Thomas (2012), “Rational Deliberation among Experts and Citizens”, in: J. Parkinson and J. Mansbridge (eds.), Deliberative Systems: Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 27–51.
Dyck, Erika and Ginny Russell (2019), “Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement”, S. J. Taylor and Alice Brumby (eds.), Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-187
Epstein, Steven (1996), Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Faulkner, Paul (2002), “On the Rationality of Our Response to Testimony”, Synthese 131(3): 353–370.
Fitzpatrick, Mike (2008), “Stigma”, British Journal of General Practice 58(549): 294.
Foucault, Michel (1986), The History of Sexuality, vol. 3. The Care of the Self. London: Penguin.
Fricker, Miranda (2007), Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. New York: Oxford University Press.
Goldman, Alvin. I. (2010), “Why Social Epistemology is Real Epistemology?” in A.
Haddock, A. Millar and D. Pritchard (eds.) Social Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–28.
—. (2001), “Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63(1): 85–110.
Hewson, Grace (2001), “Letters to the Editor”, The Guardian, reposted on “Autism: The Question of Cure” neurodiversity.com. http://neurodiversity.com/cure.html (accessed 12 November 2019).
Kapp, Steven, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, Lauren Sherman and Ted Hutman (2012). “Deficit, Difference, or Both?” Autism and Neurodiversity. Developmental psychology. 49. 10.1037/a0028353.
Oliver, Mike (1981), “A New Model of the Social Work Role in Relation to Disability”, in J. Campling (ed.), The Handicapped Person: a New Perspective for Social Workers?, London: RADAR.
Ortega, Francisco (2009), “The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity”, BioSocieties 4: 425–445.
Petryna, Ariana (2002), Biological Citizenship: Science and the Politics of Health after Chernobyl, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Prijić Samaržija, Snježana (2018), Democracy and Truth: The Conflict between Political and Epistemic Virtues. Milano, Udine: Mimesis International.
Rose, Nikolas and Carlos Novas (2005), “Biological Citizenship”, in: A. Ong and S. Collier, (eds.) Global Assemblages. Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 439–463.
Tattersall, Robert (2001) “The Expert Patient: A New Approach to Chronic Disease Management in the 21st Century”, Clinical Medicine 2(3), pp. 227-9.
Velenzuela, Hernan and Isabel Zamora (2013), “The Governance of AIDS in Chile: Power/Knowledge, Patient-User Organisation, and the Formation of the Biological Citizen”, International Social Science Journal 62: 377–389.
Kristina Lekić
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27.03.2020
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Barunčić, K. L. (2020) “Biological Citizenship in the Reliability Democracy”, Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. Belgrade, Serbia, 31(1), pp. 24–36. doi: 10.2298/FID2001024L.
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TOWARDS A HARMONY OF EPISTEMIC AND POLITICAL VIRTUES
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