04323oam 22008414 450 99620026040331620240229141446.09781400827503ebook1400827507ebook978128245829112824582999786612458293661245829110.1515/9781400827503(CKB)2520000000006986(EBL)483582(OCoLC)650307452(SSID)ssj0000409486(PQKBManifestationID)11278755(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409486(PQKBWorkID)10444789(PQKB)11562455(OCoLC)728717026(MdBmJHUP)muse43029(DE-B1597)453559(OCoLC)979968388(DE-B1597)9781400827503(Au-PeEL)EBL483582(CaPaEBR)ebr10364766(CaONFJC)MIL245829(MiAaPQ)EBC483582(EXLCZ)99252000000000698620060802d20072007 uy 0engurcn#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolitics of life itself biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century /Nikolas RosePrinceton, New Jersey ;Woodstock, Oxfordshire :Princeton University Press,[2007].©20071 online resource (371 pages)Information seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9780691121918 9780691121901 Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-339) and index.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 --IndexFor 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.In-formation series.BioethicsMedical innovationsSocial aspectsBioéthiqueMédecineInnovationsAspect socialGenomicagttPolitieke aspectengttEthische aspectengttBioethics.Medical innovationsSocial aspects.Bioéthique.MédecineInnovationsAspect social.Genomica.Politieke aspecten.Ethische aspecten.174/.957Rose Nikolas S510729MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996200260403316Politics of life itself16303UNISA