"Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power is a critical study of the relationship between the concept of citizenship and the body"--
His research explores tensions in the uses of biomedical categories linking race and disease among researchers, medical practitioners, government offi- cials, and patients. He is the author of Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, ...
'This book manifests an extraordinary breadth of empirical and theoretical research emerging in the hiatus between social criticism, anthropology, international relations as well as domestic and international law.
Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations.
In Testing Fate, Shelley Z. Reuter asks: Can the biocitizen, especially one historically defined as a racialized and pathologized Other, be said to be exercising authentic, free choice in deciding whether to undertake genetic screening?
Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark ...
Crawford 1980. 41. Crawford 2006. Using different terms, Metzl and Kirkland (2010) also argue that health has been transformed into “the new morality.” 42. Crawford 1980, 2006. 43. Guthman 2011, 52–56. 44. Crawford 2006, 415–19. 45.
Global problems such as pandemic diseases, disasters, lack of care and medication, homelessness and displacement call for global responses.This book demonstrates that a moral vision of global health is necessary and it helps to quickly ...
This book explores the discourses of bio-medicine (ie.
Beginning with the argument that eugenics was an ideological project that recast the problems of industrialization as pathologies of gender, race, and class, the book traces the legacy of this ideology in contemporary practices of genomics.
... biocitizenship was that of the victims of Chernobyl. They did not challenge the limits of medical science; rather, they worked together to gain official recognition of their disablement and of their entitlement as disabled citizens to ...