Biopolitics at 50 Years

Founding and Evolution

Tony Wohlers, Amy Fletcher, Tony Wohlers, Amy Fletcher

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781802621082
• eBook ISBN: 9781802621099
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Biopolitics 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 contents

• Cover
• Series Editor
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Political Science and Biology: Then, Now, and Next
• Politics in Evolution: The First 5 Million Years, and the Next 100
• The Remerging Foundations of a Biopolitical Science
• A Multidimensional Understanding of Human Nature in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• The Biopolitics of COVID-19: Repercussions for International Relations
• Human Nature and the Policy Process: Expectations from Biology
• Neurotoxicants and Behavior: Implications of ‘Toxicogenomics’ for Public Policy
• Study of Oxytocin in Biopolitics
• Reproductive and Genetic Technology Policymaking and Citizenship Rights
• Neoliberal Governmentality of Immunization: A Biopolitical Perspective on the Vaccines in Turkey
• Index