Introduction / Jenell Johnson, Kelly E. Happe, and Marina Levina -- Part I. Categorical understandings. Governing sexual health : bridging biocitizenship and sexual citizenship / Steven Epstein -- Carceral biocitizenship : the rhetorics of sovereignty in incarceration / Sarah Burges and Stuart J. Murray -- Epigenetics and the biocitizen : body temporality and political agency in the postgenomic age / Kelly E. Happe -- Part II. Modes of governance. Chronic citizenship : community, choice, and queer controversy / Jeffrey A. Bennett -- The necropolitical functions of biocitizenship : the sixth international AIDS conference and the U.S. ban on HIV-positive immigrants / Karma R. Chavez -- Exploiting vulnerable citizens : drug testing and the mentally III / Carl Elliott and Emma Bedor Hiland -- Part III. Activisim and resistance. Feeding hunger-striking prisoners : biopolitics and impossible citizenship / Nayan Shah -- Biocitizenship on the ground : health activism and the medical governance revolution / Merlin Chowkwanyun -- The rise of health activism : the importance of social class to biosociality / Celia Roberts and Richard Tutton -- Patient activists : experience with public engagement / Heather Aspell, Julie Cerrone, and Kirsten Schultz -- Part IV. Beyond the biocitizen. Nonhuman biocitizens : lab animals, cruel optimism, and the politics of death / Marina Levina -- The citizens of incubators : vessels of care and control / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- The supra-cyborg : the rise of global governing corporatocracies / Celeste M. Condit.
Summary:
"Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power is a critical study of the relationship between the concept of citizenship and the body"-- Provided by the publisher.
Series:
Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
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