New times and new limits on life and health policies

Abstract

With The politics of life itself, Rose proposes to map the knowledge related to recent transformations in life sciences. Thinking through the past few centuries, the author discusses the policy changes concerning perceptions about the body, medicine, diseases, scientific discoveries, pharmaceutical industry and its effects on the conception of modern Western society.

Keywords

• Biopolítica
• Biomedicina
• Inovações médicas