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The quantification of bodies serves an ambivalent purpose in the political
economy of promise of new biomedicine. On the one hand, it includes individuals
in a new biopolitical norm, making them co-producers of new healthcare-related
sociotechnical imaginaries; on the other, it urges them to explore and to overcome
the deepest natural norms, distinguishing them as apparently free self-enhancers
and creative developers of what Donna Haraway (2003) called naturecultures. By
monitoring, recording, and supplying biometric data, individuals are included in a
process for incorporating a new biomedical ethos, gradually taking on a new kind of
citizenship: biocitizenship. In this chapter, I reflect on the power such incorporation
has for transforming both individuals and society and advocate the need for making
a critical analysis of the practices of quantification of bodies, considering these as
elements of a biopolitical technology aimed at manufacturing biocitizens.
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Body quantification Biomedicalization Biocitizenship Biocommunicability Biopolitics
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Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos