biocitizenship

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ citizenship

Noun

biocitizenship (countable and uncountable, plural biocitizenships)

1. The role of a person's rights and choices that affect health in the context of the society in which they are a citizen.
   • 2009, Thérèse Murphy, New Technologies and Human Rights, page 12:

     Moreover, one point brought out by all three chapters is that not everyone has equal citizenship in our new biocitizenship age.

   • 2012, C. Pierce -, Education in the Age of Biocapitalism:

     In the binding pact created between scientific, corporate, and governmental and nongovernmental actors that comprise the nexus of biocapital, a unique type of “biocitizenship” has arisen that challenges traditional pedagogical considerations of civic life.

   • 2012, Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, page 320:

     Other social examples of neoliberal biocitizenship are the social drive toward eternal youth, which is linked to the suspension of time in globally mediated societies (Castells 1996) and can be juxtaposed to euthanasia and other social practices of assisted death.

   • 2018, Sian Beynon-Jones, Emily Grabham, Law and Time:

     Third, this has implications at local levels, in allocating what others have termed biocitizenships: for example, the law is not just about regulating professions, but also about shaping the legitimate healer, the legitimate user and the legitimate interlocutor of the state in making future regulatory decisions.