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Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the
2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural
Studies Division Book of the Year Award In 2000, the National Human
Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of
the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion
base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of
disease has increased considerably. In The Material Gene, Kelly E.
Happe considers the broad implications of this development by
treating "heredity" as both a scientific and political concept.
Beginning with the argument that eugenics was an ideological
project that recast the problems of industrialization as
pathologies of gender, race, and class, the book traces the legacy
of this ideology in contemporary practices of genomics. Delving
into the discrete and often obscure epistemologies and discursive
practices of genomic scientists, Happe maps the ways in which the
hereditarian body, one that is also normatively gendered and
racialized, is the new site whereby economic injustice,
environmental pollution, racism, and sexism are implicitly
reinterpreted as pathologies of genes and by extension, the bodies
they inhabit. Comparing genomic approaches to medicine and public
health with discourses of epidemiology, social movements, and
humanistic theories of the body and society, The Material Gene
reworks our common assumption of what might count as effective,
just, and socially transformative notions of health and disease.
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.
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.
Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the
2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural
Studies Division Book of the Year Award In 2000, the National Human
Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of
the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion
base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of
disease has increased considerably. In The Material Gene, Kelly E.
Happe considers the broad implications of this development by
treating "heredity" as both a scientific and political concept.
Beginning with the argument that eugenics was an ideological
project that recast the problems of industrialization as
pathologies of gender, race, and class, the book traces the legacy
of this ideology in contemporary practices of genomics. Delving
into the discrete and often obscure epistemologies and discursive
practices of genomic scientists, Happe maps the ways in which the
hereditarian body, one that is also normatively gendered and
racialized, is the new site whereby economic injustice,
environmental pollution, racism, and sexism are implicitly
reinterpreted as pathologies of genes and by extension, the bodies
they inhabit. Comparing genomic approaches to medicine and public
health with discourses of epidemiology, social movements, and
humanistic theories of the body and society, The Material Gene
reworks our common assumption of what might count as effective,
just, and socially transformative notions of health and disease.
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