bookLondon School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)Feb 9, 2009Closed access
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Abstract
Acknowledgments vii List of Acronyms xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century 9 Chapter 2: Politics and Life 41 Chapter 3: An Emergent Form of Life? 77 Chapter 4: At Genetic Risk 106 Chapter 5: Biological Citizens 131 Chapter 6: Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine 155 Chapter 7: Neurochemical Selves 187 Chapter 8: The Biology of Control 224 Afterword Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital 252 Notes 261 Bibliography 305 Index 341
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- Biopower
- Politics
- Biomedicine
- Subjectivity
- Eugenics
- Environmental ethics
- Power (physics)
- Race (biology)
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