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biofascism en · NOUN

Etymology

From bio- + fascism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.
   • 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:
   • Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand. 2001, Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society, page 164:
   • 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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