Against Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 18
• Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourse You see someone smoking a cigar... Lees meer

Mattering

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 1
• Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuro... Lees meer

The Material Gene

Kelly E Happe

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 9
• Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Boo... Lees meer

Managing Diabetes

Jeffrey A Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 13
• A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination Over twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population... Lees meer

Contesting Intersex

Georgiann Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 10
• Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Appli... Lees meer

Are Racists Crazy?

Sander L Gilman, James Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 11
• The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford report... Lees meer

Biocitizenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 19
• A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship Citizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicin... Lees meer

To Fix or to Heal

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 3
• Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined w... Lees meer

Cloning Wild Life

Carrie Friese

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 14
• The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of d... Lees meer

Men at Risk

Shari L Dworkin

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 17
• Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health research Although the first AIDS cases were attribu... Lees meer

To Fix or to Heal

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 3
• Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined w... Lees meer

Contesting Intersex

Georgiann Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 10
• Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Appli... Lees meer

Missing Bodies

Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 2
• We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are crea... Lees meer

Toxic Shock

Sharra L Vostral

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 6
• A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a ser... Lees meer

Heart-Sick

Janet K Shim

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 15
• Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease s... Lees meer

Against Health

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 18
• Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourse You see someone smoking a cigar... Lees meer

Toxic Shock

Sharra L Vostral

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 6
• A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a ser... Lees meer

The Material Gene

Kelly E Happe

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 9
• Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Boo... Lees meer

Biopolitics

Thomas Lemke

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 5
• The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debate The biological features of human being... Lees meer

Plucked

Rebecca M Herzig

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 8
• Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatori... Lees meer

Freezing Fertility

Lucy Van de Wiel

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 22
• Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and i... Lees meer

Personalized Medicine

Barbara Prainsack

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 7
• Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been ... Lees meer

Biopolitics

Thomas Lemke

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 5
• The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debate The biological features of human being... Lees meer

Freezing Fertility

Lucy Van de Wiel

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 22
• Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and i... Lees meer