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Biopolitics and Utopia

An Interdisciplinary Reader

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Stapleton
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  2. Andrew Byers
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy (PSBPP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Andrew Byers, Patricia Stapleton
      Pages 1-9

  6. Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Utopia and Biopolitics: The Need for an Ethics in Biotechnology

      • Cameron Barrows
      Pages 193-201

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 203-210
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This interdisciplinary reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and humanities.

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"One of the strengths of this collection is the variety of approaches to analyzing the intersections between utopian aspirations and concepts of the body. The topics discussed can as specific as physical fitness programs during wartime, pre-implantation genetic diagnoses in fertility treatments, and in vitro meat projects and as general as the technophobia is some science fiction, the need for dialogues between humanists and scientists, and for the development of convincing ethical standards for biotechnology." - Kenneth Roemer, Professor of English, Piper Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, the author and editor of Utopian Audiences (2009), America as Utopia (1980), and The Obsolete Necessity (1976)

"Engaging, original and trans-disciplinary at its core, Stapleton and Byers have curated a volume of critical interpretations of utopian biopolitical projects. Contributors analyze far-ranging State techniques that imagine, produce and reproduce perfect citizens. The collection is vitally necessary to grasp modern world-making, near futures and their effects." - Lisa Jean Moore, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Purchase College, USA, the co-author of Missing Bodies (2009)

About the authors

Patricia Stapleton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Andrew Byers, Duke University, USA Evie Kendal, Monash University, Australia Rasmus R. Simonsen, Western University, Canada Arpita Das, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Malaysia Elena L. Cohen, New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, USA, Graduate Center of the City of New York, USA Selena Middleton, McMaster University, Canada Cameron Barrows, St John's College, USA

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