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Anthropos Today
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 27.95The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics" of anthropology. Surprisingly little attention, however,... more...
Marking Time
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 26.95In Marking Time , Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences,... more...
The Accompaniment
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 21.00In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an extended rumination on what he gained from two of his formative mentors: Michel Foucault and Clifford... more...
Designing Human Practices
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 25.00In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of new enzymes, genetic circuits, cells, and other... more...
Demands of the Day
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 22.50Demands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber’s notion of the “demands of the day.” Just as the demand of the day for anthropology decades ago consisted... more...
Narrating the New Predictive Genetics
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00This book explores how new techniques in genetic testing have changed the relationship between ethics and medicine. Drawing on research with families affected by Huntington's Disease, the author highlights the disparity between actually living with the results of genetic testing and the public debates around genetic testing and medicine. more...
Pharmaceutical Reason
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 35.00Lakoff presents an arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon human behaviour and human thought. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina, this will appeal beyond psychiatry and the life sciences. more...
The Politics of Personalised Medicine
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 41.00Applies a social science perspective to exploring issues arising in clinical practice as a result of drug development linked to genetic testing. These include the social context within which new drugs are trialled, attitudes of the clinicians asked to administer them, expectations of clinicians and patients and associated ethical issues. more...
The Human Genome Diversity Project
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important and controversial programme of research arising from debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book is based on an ethnography of laboratory practice and explores issues around standardization, naturalisation and diversity. more...
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