In-Formation – serie
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13 produkter
Politics of Life Itself
Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Av Nikolas Rose
Häftad, 2006
436 kr
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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 …
Shadows and Lights of Waco
Millennialism Today
Häftad, 2001
969 kr
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When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him. Though the popular imagination had relegated the site's millennialist denizens to the radical fringe, Faubion found not psychopathology but a sturdy and comprehensive system for …
When Nature Goes Public
The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico
Av Cori Hayden
Häftad, 2003
436 kr
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Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical …
Picturing Personhood
Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
Av Joseph Dumit
Häftad, 2004
494 kr
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By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET …
Anthropos Today
Reflections on Modern Equipment
Av Paul Rabinow
Häftad, 2003
385 kr
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The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics" of …
Global "Body Shopping"
An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry
Av Biao Xiang
Häftad, 2006
396 kr
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How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism …
Race to the Finish
Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics
Häftad, 2004
436 kr
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In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who …
Fiscal Disobedience
An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
Häftad, 2004
476 kr
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Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis …
Born and Made
An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Av Sarah Franklin, Celia Roberts
Häftad, 2006
436 kr
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Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to …
Wild Profusion
Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago
Av Celia Lowe
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers …
Insurgent Citizenship
Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
Häftad, 2009
436 kr
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Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two …
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
The Last Soviet Generation
Häftad, 2005
379 kr
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always …
Will to Live
AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival
Av João Biehl
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But …
