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The Politics of Life Itself : Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century /

"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...

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Autor principal: Rose, Nikolas S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.