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The politics of life itself : biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rose, Nikolas
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006932072-t.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006932072-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2006932072-b.html