TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stapleton,Patricia
AU  - Byers,Andrew
TI  - Biopolitics and utopia: an interdisciplinary reader 
SN  - 9781137514745 (hardback)
AV  - TP248.13 B55 .B548 2015
U1  - 321/.07 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London
PB  - vandana shiva & ingunn moser
KW  - Biopolitics
KW  - Utopias
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
N2  - "Biopolitics and Utopia explores the intersection of biopolitics and utopian thought. As an interdisciplinary work, it addresses many salient biopolitical issues (state and medical interventions in the body, fears over scientific progress, resistance to state biopower, and ethical concerns), while also engaging in the utopian drive behind biopolitical efforts. The book is structured into four main sections: Actions, Speculations, Reactions, and Reflections. The chapters in Actions examine the practices of direct, medical intervention to 'normalize' citizens' bodies. The next section, Speculations, approaches the intersection of utopia and biopolitics through a literary lens, reviewing science fiction texts as expressions of cultural and social fears about scientific progress. Reactions outlines potential acts of resistance in the face of biopower. Finally, Reflections offers a more philosophical essay, which engages the reader in the potential for creating an ethics for scientific standards "--; "This reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and humanities"--
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