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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.

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• Series: In-Formation
• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press; annotated edition edition (October 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691121907
• ISBN-13: 978-0691121901
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century PDF

This book is in my opinion a very good book. Well-written and well-organised with ample sources. It is based on insights of Foucault about the impact of medicine and other disciplines on our society and our self-image. For readers not familiar with Foucault and other theorists on the 'Psy-complex' this book presents all the essential background-information and takes this kind of analysis one step further; into the 21st century.
What I appreciate is that it is free from ideological/political dogmatism. It presents a complicated reality that we all deal with: we are in many ways biological subjects and this is of interest for many social institutions and for you and me as an individual too. It sketches the challenges for the near future. It shows how much is linked here.
Higly recommended!

By E. P. Veening

I bought this book because I am looking for a real merger, or at least a better conversation, between biological and cultural anthropologists. This conversation is growing in the field of medical anthropology, but we need to grow more. Politics is one of anthropologists' core concerns. This book, not by an anthropologist, shows one important direction we must take.

By Margaret Trawick