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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that animates life science research today ( Sunder Rajan and Leonelli 2013 : 466). National and transnational actors in these cases recast sovereignty toward new objects—viruses and genomes—moving the register of sovereignty toward biological materials and the norms of ownership and exchange in biomedicine...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Sabina Leonelli This essay examines the notion of “translational research,” which has become a dominant form of the institutionalization and practice of contemporary biomedicine, as an entry point into theorizing questions of knowledge, value, and their articulations. We...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 311–331.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Margaret Lock; Eugene Raikhel Margaret Lock, interviewed by Eugene Raikhel, discusses a distinguished career focused on troubling widely held assumptions about medicine, the body, and the brain, while reflecting on her role in the emergence and development of the anthropology of biomedicine...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 370–373.
Published: 01 September 2013
... transformation in the sciences of life, and they offer a series of provocative reflections on the values — both ethical and economic — of knowledge in contemporary biomedicine. The infusion of both public funds and private capital into basic research, exemplified by the Human Genome Project and its for-profit...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a question of “miscommunication,” as suggested by Mason et al. (2018) . It is not that research scientists and practitioners of biomedicine know the truth of cure, a truth that becomes distorted when processed through the publicity machine of the public health apparatus and poured into the eyes and ears...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 435–452.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... Anyhow, I wanted to create a forum where people from a range of social science backgrounds and a range of life science backgrounds could talk to each other about the new ways of thinking and intervening that were emerging in biology and biomedicine. BIOS started as a working group based at Goldsmiths...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 413–439.
Published: 01 September 2018
...”—in other words, the recycling of biological products ( European Bioeconomy Alliance 2016 ). 1 Besides natural resources, one field in which bioeconomics thinking has already been widely applied is biomedicine. Nikolas Rose, my third key theoretical inspiration, has here taken further Foucault’s broad...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 467–486.
Published: 01 September 2005
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3. For a superb analysis of legal arguments that partly hinge on knowledge from biomedicine and
epidemiology, see Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, “ ‘Come up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward
Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols,” Public Culture...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 419–425.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... In the United States, the main enforcement mechanism is the requirement of proof of immunization as a prerequisite to school enrollment. Together, these principles define a mid-twentieth-century settlement that links the task of ensuring the health of the population to acceptance of the authority of biomedicine...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 523–550.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the purview of clinical biomedicine. To present this argument, first I outline some of the historical and political economies that contextualize the UCMC today. Second, I offer a detailed analysis of the enumeration and categorization processes performed by financial officers at the UCMC. This part...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 453–477.
Published: 01 September 2004
... treatment centers.
City of trade and city of disease, the informal and the formal, the visible and the
hidden—all are intertwined, each embedded in the other.
The dialectic between indigenous knowledge and biomedicine is more marked
and the reference to AIDS more explicit in advertisements...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2013
... for lipids. Marx found in the nineteenth-century science of metabolism a fecund source of inspiration for the understanding of exchange ( Schmidt 1971 ). Things have changed, of course, in the relation of Man to Nature. Now that the task increasingly facing biomedicine is not to treat the “natural...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 267–292.
Published: 01 May 2001
... that informs such choices. The Mawri’s therapeutic strategies—
particularly the way they simultaneously resist, yet embrace, biomedicine—have
grown out of specific historical conditions that I cannot discuss here. I shall sim-
ply...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
... to rights in South Africa: Social movements, NGOs, and popular politics after apartheid . Oxford : James Currey . Rose Nikolas . 2007 . The politics of life itself: Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Rule...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in Berlin to mid-twentieth-century randomized controlled studies of antibiotics in Britain and bed rest in India. Given the persistence of tuberculosis into the present and its evolution into drug-resistant forms, it becomes important to reconsider the limits and possibilities of cure in biomedicine...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 11–33.
Published: 01 January 2021
... . doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1162543 . Rose Nikolas . 2007 . The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Rushby Andrew J. , Claire Mark W. , Osborn Hugh , and Watson Andrew J...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 395–421.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of pestilence (lice, nits, pests) provide the trope for the
extermination of the one who has been situated outside this circle of interiority of
the national body, metaphors of biomedicine (miasma, the plague,54 cancer) allow
the sovereign to articulate a logos that surrounds the process of extermination...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
... questions and assumptions as relentlessly future-oriented, diverting atten-
tion from the careful study and analysis of past failures, treatment injuries, and missed diagnoses.
26. These traits are expected of the diagnosed body, which in biomedicine will become at differ-
ent points a work object...
