TY - BOOK ID - 523773 TI - The politics of life itself : biomedicine, power and subjectivity in the twenty-first century PY - 2007 SN - 9780691121901 9780691121918 0691121915 0691121907 9786612458293 1400827507 1282458299 9781400827503 9781282458291 6612458291 PB - Princeton/Oxford Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of knowledge KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Human medicine KW - Bioethics KW - Medical innovations KW - Bioéthique KW - Medecine KW - Social aspects KW - Innovations KW - Aspect social KW - #SBIB:316.334.3M40 KW - #SBIB:316.7C122 KW - #SBIB:39A9 KW - Medische sociologie: zorgenverstrekkers, relatie met hulpvragers KW - Cultuursociologie: overtuigingen, waarden en houdingen KW - Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps KW - Erfelijkheidsleer KW - Fysiologie KW - Psychofarmaca KW - Geneesmiddelen KW - Bioethics. KW - Bioéthique. KW - Médecine KW - Bioethical Issues. KW - Biotechnology KW - Ethische aspecten. KW - Genomica. KW - Politieke aspecten. KW - Social aspects. KW - Aspect social. KW - ethics. KW - Bioéthique. KW - Médecine KW - Ethics. KW - Bioéthique KW - Society and medical innovations KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Bioethique. KW - Science KW - Bioethical Issue KW - Issue, Bioethical KW - Issues, Bioethical KW - Euthanasia KW - Human Experimentation KW - Patient Rights KW - Animal Experimentation KW - Chemical engineering KW - Genetic engineering KW - Psychofarmacon KW - Geneesmiddel KW - Droit médical UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:523773 AB - 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. ER -