{"product_id":"deadly-biocultures-the-ethics-of-life-making","title":"Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making (Hardcover, 288 pages) – Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2019. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eA trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, Deadly Biocultures 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\u003cp\u003eDeadly Biocultures 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  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   \u003cp\u003e\"Deadly Biocultures is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics.\"—Ethnic and Racial Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deadly Biocultures 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.\"—Disability Studies Quarterly \u003c\/p\u003e           About the Author   \u003cp\u003eNadine Ehlers teaches sociology at the University of Sydney. She is author of Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection and coeditor of Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine (Minnesota, 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShiloh Krupar is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she chairs the Culture and Politics Program. She is author of Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (Minnesota, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"Nadine Ehlers, Shiloh Krupar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46071148740842,"sku":"9781517905064","price":105.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71TfH3qhM1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781286315","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/deadly-biocultures-the-ethics-of-life-making","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}