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This volume explores the linkage of the life sciences with policy (biopolicy). It features two points of departure: the implications of the neurosciences for pu

The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. Among biological areas from which these linkage

The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. In the second p

The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governa

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world’s leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social sci