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

by Nikolas Rose

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691121907
• ISBN13: 9780691121901
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"