Transformed states : medicine, biotechnology, and American culture, 1990-2020 /
"Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications, and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pandemic. In exploring the entanglements of mental and physical health in an age of biotechno...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18654624 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Part one. Genetic states
- Genomics, Diversity, and the Millennial Imagination
- Embryonic Entanglements : Fetal Design and Life Cultures
- Part two. Conscious states
- Health in the Neuronal Workspace : Rethinking Consciousness and Intelligence
- Augmented Lives : Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in a Time of Conflict
- Part three. Dynamic states
- Keeping On : Productive Aging and the Quest for Life Extension
- Travelling Through : Trans Identities and Biotech Potentiality
- Part four. Perilous states
- Pandemic Culture : Immunization Politics and the Covid-19 Acceleration
- Invisible Toxicities : Environmental Health and the Limits of Biotechnology
- Conclusion: Mental Health and Biotechnology Beyond
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index.