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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rose, Nikolas S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ethische aspecten.
Politieke aspecten.
Genomica.
Medizinische Ethik
Gesundheitspolitik
Biomedizin
Medical innovations > Social aspects.
Bioethics.
SCIENCE > Biotechnology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Medecine > Innovations > Aspect social.
Bioethique.
Biotechnology > ethics [mesh]
Bioethical Issues [MESH]
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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