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

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

Nikolas Rose

350 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 leve...

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