New times and new limits on life and health policies

Authors

  • Maria Lucia de Paiva Jacobini Puc-Campinas, Puc-SP

Keywords:

biopolitics, biomedicine, medical innovations

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.

Author Biography

Maria Lucia de Paiva Jacobini, Puc-Campinas, Puc-SP

MARIA LUCIA DE PAIVA JACOBINI é economista, jornalista, especialista em Jornalismo Científico pelo Labjor/Unicamp, mestre e doutoranda   com bolsa CNPq do curso de Comunicação e Semiótica da PUC/SP.

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How to Cite

Jacobini, M. L. de P. (2014). New times and new limits on life and health policies. Galaxia, 14(28). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/20475

Issue

No. 28 (2014)

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