Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics Of Life-Making Shiloh Krupar University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Medicine

A Trenchant Analysis Of The Dark Side Regulatory Life-Making Today In Their Seemingly Relentless Pursuit Life Do Contemporary U S \ Biocultures\ -Where Biomedicine Extends Beyond Formal Institutions Clinic Hospital And Lab To Everyday Cultural Practices-Also Engage Deadly Endeavor? Challenging Us Question Implications Biocultures Shows That Efforts Make Live\ Are Accompanied By Twin Operation Let Die\ : They Validate Enhance Lives Seen As Economically Viable Self-Sustaining Productive Oriented Toward Future Optimism While Reinforcing Inequitable Distributions Based On Race Class Gender Dis Ability Affirming Can Obscure Death Create Conditions Even Kill Examines Affirmation Hope Target Thrive Secure Green Respective Cancer Race-Based Health Fatness Aging Afterlife Its Chapters Focus Specific Practices Technologies Or Techniques Ostensibly Affirm Suggest Life\ Inextricable Links Capital But Also Engender Politics Erasure Authors Ultimately Ask: What Alternative Social Forms Individual Might Be Mapped Onto Intersect With For More Equitable Biofutures? Σελίδες: 288 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm