Politics of life itself : biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century / Nikolas Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Nikolas S.

Series:

In-formation series.

Information series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Medical innovations--Social aspects.

Medical innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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. Rose analyzes the transformation of biomedicine from the practice of healing to the government of life; the new emphasis on treating disease susceptibilities rather than disease; the shift in our understanding of the patient; the emergence of new forms of medical activism; the rise of biocapital; and the mutations in biopower. He concludes that these developments have profound consequences for who we think we are, and who we want to be.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-339) and index.

ISBN:

9781400827503

1400827507

9781282458291

1282458299

9786612458293

6612458291

OCLC:

650307452