objective self-fashioning

is that process whereby we fashion and refashion ourselves out of received, taken-for-granted notions, theories, and tendencies regarding human bodies, brains, and kinds considered as objective, referential, extrinsic, and objects of science and medicine.

The objective-self consist of our taken-for-granted notions, theories, and tendencies regarding human bodies, brains, and kinds considered as objective, referential, extrinsic, and objects of science and medicine . . . . Furthermore, objective-selfs [sic] are not finished but incomplete and in process. With received-facts, we fashion and refashion our objective-selves. (Dumit, 2004: 7) Dumit J (2004) Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

objective self fashioning, n.Definitions

objective self fashioning