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In the name of humanity : the government of threat and care / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanity.
- Political ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights.
- Contents:
- Introduction: government and humanity / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin
- When humanity sits in judgment : crimes against humanity and the conundrum of race and ethnicity at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda / Richard Ashby Wilson
- Children, humanity, and the infantilization of peace / Liisa Malkki
- Narrative, humanity, and patrimony in an equatorial African forest / Rebecca Hardin
- Inhumanitas : political speciation, animality, natality, defacement / Allen Feldman
- Medication is me now? : human values and political life in the wake of global AIDS treatment / Joao Biehl
- Environment, community, government / Arun Agrawal
- The mortality effect : counting the dead in the cancer trial / S. Lochlann Jain
- Inequality of lives, hierarchies of humanity : moral commitments and ethical dilemmas of humanitarianism / Didier Fassin
- The politics of experimentality / Adriana Petryna
- Stealth nature : biomimesis and the weaponization of life / Charles Zerner.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25191-4
- 9786613251916
- 0-8223-9322-0
- OCLC:
- 709618912
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