Description
Book SynopsisBiopolitics at 50 Years: Founding and Evolution explores the study of biology and politics through the prism of fifty years of experience presenting current research that illustrates the nature and evolution of biopolitics.
Containing substantive chapters that address many issues using different methodologies, Biopolitics at 50 Years draws on different theoretical perspectives to advance the field. Beginning with a reflection on the origin and scholarly emphasises of biopolitics and concludes with future prospects in the field, this 13th volume of Research in Biopolitics explores the broad scale theoretical consideration of politics based on evolutionary factors affecting the political realm physiological factors affecting political behavior, public policy issues affected by biology and how human nature affects outcomes of policy making.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Tony Wohlers and Amy Fletcher
Chapter 2. Political Science and Biology: Then, Now, and Next; Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson
Chapter 3. Politics in Evolution: The First 5 Million Years, and the Next 100; Peter A. Corning
Chapter 4. The Remerging Foundations of a Biopolitical Science; Kenneth C. Blanchard, Jr.
Chapter 5. A Multidimensional Understanding of Human Nature in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy; James H. Rutherford
Chapter 6. The Biopolitics of COVID-19: Repercussions for International Relations; Andrey Makarychev
Chapter 7. Human Nature and the Policy Process: Expectations from Biology; Rebecca C. Harris
Chapter 8. Neurotoxicants and Behavior: Implications of ‘Toxicogenomics’ for Public Policy; Roger D. Masters
Chapter 9. Study of Oxytocin in Biopolitics; Seyoung Jung
Chapter 10. Reproductive and Genetic Technology Policy Making and Citizenship Rights; Sandra Reineke
Chapter 11. Neoliberal Governmentality of Immunization: A Biopolitical Perspective on the Vaccines in Turkey; Başak Akar
