Politics of Life Itself Rose Nikolas
Politics of Life Itself Rose Nikolas For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic…
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Politics of Life Itself Rose Nikolas
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. 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. But today normality itself is open to medical modification.
Rose analyzes the 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 of most social science, Nikolas Rose analyzes contemporary molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry.