基本説明
Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism of most social science, 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.
Full Description
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
Acknowledgments vii List of Acronyms xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1Biopolitics 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
