The Politics of Life Itself
Subtitle: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Contributors: Ebooks Corporation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781400827503
Subjects: Social aspects; Medicine; Medical innovations; Philosophy; Bioethics
Description: For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the widespread politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1 Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 2 Politics and Life; Chapter 3 An Emergent Form of Life?; Chapter 4 At Genetic Risk; Chapter 5 Biological Citizens; Chapter 6 Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine; Chapter 7 Neurochemical Selves; Chapter 8 The Biology of Control; Afterword Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital; Notes; Bibliography; Index.