biocitizenship
biocitizenship noun: the role of a person's rights and choices that affect health in the context of the society in which they are a citizen.
Noun
biocitizenship (countable and uncountable, plural biocitizenships)
- The role of a person's rights and choices that affect health in the context of the society in which they are a citizen.
- Moreover, one point brought out by all three chapters is that not everyone has equal citizenship in our new biocitizenship age.2009, Thérèse Murphy, New Technologies and Human Rights, page 12
- 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, C. Pierce -, Education in the Age of Biocapitalism
Forms of biocitizenship
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Origin of biocitizenship
From bio- + citizenship.
Questions about biocitizenship
- What does biocitizenship mean?
- Biocitizenship means the role of a person's rights and choices that affect health in the context of the society in which they are a citizen.
- What part of speech is biocitizenship?
- Biocitizenship is a noun.
- What is the plural of biocitizenship?
- The plural of biocitizenship is biocitizenships.
Words near biocitizenship in the dictionary
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