biofascism

English

Alternative forms

• bio-fascism

Etymology

bio- +‎ fascism

Noun

biofascism (uncountable)

1. Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.
   • 2001, Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society‎^[1], page 164:

     Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.

   • 2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth Essays‎^[2], page 109:

     The roots of biofascism—the ideological celebration of the family—are deep in American political culture.

   • 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:

     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."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:biofascism.

Related terms

• biofascist