The biomedical empire : lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic
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Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2021].
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viii, 153 pages ; 21 cm
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Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
RA418.R685 2021
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Published
Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2021].
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Book - Regular Print
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English

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Includes bibliographical references.
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"We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity-drivers of our access to basic goods and services-rely on approval and legitimation by biomedicine. Moreover, a vast and powerful global market has risen up around the empire making it one of the largest economic forces in the world. Katz Rothman shows that biomedicine has the key elements of an imperial power: economic leverage, the faith of its citizens, and governmental rule. She investigates the Western colonial underpinnings of the empire, and its rapid intrusion into everyday life focusing on the realms of birth and death. This provides her with a powerful vantage point from which to critically examine the current moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power structures of the empire in unprecedented ways while sparking the most visible resistance it has ever seen. This short book will make the most of this moment: laying out what the Biomedical Empire is, how biomedicine has become an Imperial power, and what some of the key consequences have been. While much of the focus will be on the American situation, the argument that biomedicine has become an imperial power is inherently transnational. Indeed, Katz Rothman argues that it has permeated all nation-states"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rothman, B. K. (2021). The biomedical empire: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic . Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press.

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Rothman, Barbara Katz. 2021. The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic. Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press.

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Rothman, Barbara Katz. The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2021.

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Rothman, Barbara Katz. The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2021.

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