Deadly Biocultures av Nadine Ehlers, Shiloh Krupar

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<P><B>A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today</B></P><P><BR/> In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, <I>Deadly Biocultures</I> shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill.</P><P><I>Deadly Biocultures</I> examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based hea