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A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship Citizenship has a
long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years,
developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number
of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies
have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and
practices of citizenship, or what has been called
“biocitizenship.” This book, the first collection of essays on
the topic of biocitizenship, aims to examine biocitizenship as a
mode of political action and expand readers’ understanding of
biopolitics. Organized into four distinct sections covering topics
including AIDS, drug testing on the mentally ill, and force-feeding
prisoners, Biocitizenship delves deep into the relationship between
private and public identity, politics, and power. Composed of
pieces by leading scholars from a wide variety of disciplines,
Biocitizenship offers a clear and comprehensive discussion on
biocitizenship, biopolitics, and groups that may be affected by
this ever-growing dialogue. Authors address issues familiar to
biopolitics scholarship such as gender, sexuality, class, race, and
immigration, but also consider unique objects of study, such as
incubators, dead bodies, and corporations. Biocitizenship seeks to
question who may count as a biological citizen and for what
reasons, an essential topic in an age in which the body and its
health provide the conditions necessary for political recognition
and agency.
This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about
life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and
why it matters. Jenell Johnson studies arguments on behalf of
life—not just of the human or animal variety, but all life. She
considers, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s fight for
water, deep ecologists’ Earth First! activism, the Voluntary
Human Extinction Movement, and astrophysicists’ positions on
Martian microbes. What she reveals is that this advocacy—vital
advocacy—expands our view of what counts as life and shows us
what it would mean for the moral standing of human life to be
extended to life itself. Including short interviews with celebrated
ecological writer Dorion Sagan, former NASA Planetary Protection
Officer Catharine Conley, and leading figure in Indigenous and
environmental studies Kyle Whyte, Every Living Thing provides a
capacious view of life in the natural world. This book is a
must-read for anyone interested in biodiversity, bioethics, and the
environment.
A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship Citizenship has a
long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years,
developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number
of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies
have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and
practices of citizenship, or what has been called "biocitizenship."
This book, the first collection of essays on the topic of
biocitizenship, aims to examine biocitizenship as a mode of
political action and expand readers' understanding of biopolitics.
Organized into four distinct sections covering topics including
AIDS, drug testing on the mentally ill, and force-feeding
prisoners, Biocitizenship delves deep into the relationship between
private and public identity, politics, and power. Composed of
pieces by leading scholars from a wide variety of disciplines,
Biocitizenship offers a clear and comprehensive discussion on
biocitizenship, biopolitics, and groups that may be affected by
this ever-growing dialogue. Authors address issues familiar to
biopolitics scholarship such as gender, sexuality, class, race, and
immigration, but also consider unique objects of study, such as
incubators, dead bodies, and corporations. Biocitizenship seeks to
question who may count as a biological citizen and for what
reasons, an essential topic in an age in which the body and its
health provide the conditions necessary for political recognition
and agency.
This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo
subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as
Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction
is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about
conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. The comics here expose the
contradictions, complexities, and confluences around diverse
individual experiences of the entire reproductive process, from
trying to conceive to child loss and childbirth. Jenell Johnson's
introduction situates comics about reproduction within the growing
field of graphic medicine and reveals how they provide a discursive
forum in which concepts can be explored and presented as
uncertainties rather than as part of a prescribed or expected
narrative. Through comics such as Lyn Chevley's groundbreaking
"Abortion Eve," Bethany Doane's "Pushing Back: A Home Birth Story,"
Leah Hayes's "Not Funny Ha-Ha," and "Losing Thomas & Ella: A
Father's Story," by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, the collection
explores a myriad of reproductive experiences and perspectives. The
result is a provocative, multifaceted portrait of one of the most
basic and complicated of all human experiences, one that can be
hilarious and heartbreaking. Featuring work by well-known comics
artists as well as exciting new voices, this incisive collection is
an important and timely resource for understanding how reproduction
intersects with sociocultural issues. The afterword and a section
of discussion exercises and questions make it a perfect teaching
tool.
This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about
life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and
why it matters. Jenell Johnson studies arguments on behalf of
life-not just of the human or animal variety, but all life. She
considers, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's fight for
water, deep ecologists' Earth First! activism, the Voluntary Human
Extinction Movement, and astrophysicists' positions on Martian
microbes. What she reveals is that this advocacy-vital
advocacy-expands our view of what counts as life and shows us what
it would mean for the moral standing of human life to be extended
to life itself. Including short interviews with celebrated
ecological writer Dorion Sagan, former NASA Planetary Protection
Officer Catharine Conley, and leading figure in Indigenous and
environmental studies Kyle Whyte, Every Living Thing provides a
capacious view of life in the natural world. This book is a
must-read for anyone interested in biodiversity, bioethics, and the
environment.
In 1935, lobotomy, one of the most infamous procedures in the
history of medicine, was heralded as a "miracle cure" by newspapers
and magazines, as they hoped that this "soul surgery" would empty
the nation's perennially blighted asylums. But the practice soon
fell from favor, as the operation became characterized as a cruel
practice with suspiciously authoritarian overtones. Only twenty
years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for
"therapeutic courage" were condemned for their barbarity. American
Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History studies representations of lobotomy
in a wide variety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and
cultural history of the infamous procedure and its continued effect
on American medicine. Author Jenell Johnson has uncovered
previously discarded texts including science fiction, horror films,
political polemics, and conspiracy theories that illustrate
lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives and
how they contributed to a powerful image of the operation that
persists to this day. In a provocative challenge to the history of
medicine, American Lobotomy argues that lobotomy's rhetorical
history is crucial to understanding lobotomy's medical history,
offering a case study of how medicine accumulates meaning as it
circulates in public culture, and it stands as an argument for the
need to understand biomedicine as a culturally situated practice.
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