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This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, these essays reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research, and the deep epistemological divides clearly remain - making for provocative reading.

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What are the final limits of medicine? What should we not try to cure medically, even if we had the necessary financial resources and technology? This book philosophically addresses these questions by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem. Members of certain groups, who are deemed by traditional standards to have a medical condition, such as deafness, obesity, or anorexia, argue that they have created their own cultures and ways of life. Curing their conditions would be a form of genocide. Members of other groups are seeking to provide medical treatment to what would conventionally be deemed 'cultural conditions'. Mild neurotics who take anti-depressants to elevate their mood, runners who use steroids, or men and women seeking cosmetic surgery are asking for medical treatment for problems that might be solved culturally, by changing norms, pressures, or expectations in the broader culture. Each of these two debates endeavors to locate medicine's final frontier and to articulate what it is that we should not treat medically even if we could. This volume analyzes what these two contemporary debates have to say to each other and thus offers a new way of determining medicine's final limits.

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Medical innovations --- Médecine --- Medecine --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Government policy --- Social aspects. --- Innovations --- Aspect moral --- Politique gouvernementale --- Aspect social --- 174.2 --- 796.011.5 --- Society and medical innovations --- Innovations, Medical --- Medicine --- Medical technology --- Technological innovations --- 796.011.5 Ethiek van de sport. Fair play --- Ethiek van de sport. Fair play --- 174.2 Beroepsmoraal van de artsen. Medische beroepsethiek --- Beroepsmoraal van de artsen. Medische beroepsethiek --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects

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For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the widespread politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology.Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism of most social science, Nikolas Rose analyzes contemporary molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry. Rose analyzes the transformation of biomedicine from the practice of healing to the government of life; the new emphasis on treating disease susceptibilities rather than disease; the shift in our understanding of the patient; the emergence of new forms of medical activism; the rise of biocapital; and the mutations in biopower. He concludes that these developments have profound consequences for who we think we are, and who we want to be.

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Human reproduction --- Medical innovations --- Pregnancy --- Pro-choice movement --- #GBIB:CBMER --- Abortion rights movement --- Free-to-choose movement --- Freedom-of-choice movement --- Pro-abortion movement --- Right-to-choose movement --- Gestation --- Society and medical innovations --- Social aspects --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Demography --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- India --- Abortion --- Birth control --- Women's rights --- Conception --- Physiology --- Reproduction --- Government policy --- Citizen participation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Religious aspects --- Sex --- Motherhood --- Reproductive rights --- Reproductive technology --- Population policy --- Book