{"product_id":"deadly-biocultures-the-ethics-of-life-making-paperback-softback-9781517905071","title":"Deadly Biocultures; The Ethics of Life-making (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517905071","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDeadly Biocultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Ethics of Life-making\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNadine Ehlers (Author), Shiloh Krupar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517905071\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar have written a brilliant book about the Janus-faced nature of neoliberal biopolitics. Focusing on a diverse range of topics, from race-based medicine to the ‘war on cancer,’ they superbly show how practices and technologies aimed at fostering life in liberal democratic regimes perversely produce vulnerability, death-in-life, and even death itself.\"-Jonathan Xavier Inda, author of \u003ci\u003eRacial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeadly Biocultures\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics.\"-\u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeadly Biocultures\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely and provocative contribution to the rich literature on biopolitics from which it draws. Ehlers and Krupar provide unique examples and deep engagement with a wide array of American biocultures.\"-\u003ci\u003eDisability Studies Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”-where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices-also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, \u003ci\u003eDeadly Biocultures\u003c\/i\u003e shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis\/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeadly Biocultures\u003c\/i\u003e examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619243847960,"sku":"9781517905071","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/deadly-biocultures-the-ethics-of-life-making-paperback-softback-9781517905071","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}