Biopolitics at 50 Years
Founding and Evolution
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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.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Tony Wohlers and Amy Fletcher
- Chapter 2. Political Science and Biology: Then, Now, and Next; Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson
- Chapter 3. Politics in Evolution: The First 5 Million Years, and the Next 100; Peter A. Corning
- Chapter 4. The Remerging Foundations of a Biopolitical Science; Kenneth C. Blanchard, Jr.
- Chapter 5. A Multidimensional Understanding of Human Nature in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy; James H. Rutherford
- Chapter 6. The Biopolitics of COVID-19: Repercussions for International Relations; Andrey Makarychev
- Chapter 7. Human Nature and the Policy Process: Expectations from Biology; Rebecca C. Harris
- Chapter 8. Neurotoxicants and Behavior: Implications of ‘Toxicogenomics’ for Public Policy; Roger D. Masters
- Chapter 9. Study of Oxytocin in Biopolitics; Seyoung Jung
- Chapter 10. Reproductive and Genetic Technology Policy Making and Citizenship Rights; Sandra Reineke
- Chapter 11. Neoliberal Governmentality of Immunization: A Biopolitical Perspective on the Vaccines in Turkey; Başak Akar
Dr. Tony Wohlers is an Associate Professor of Political Science and graduated from Northern Illinois University. Throughout his academic career in higher education, he focused on research in the area of biopolitics and also served as the co-chief of the Politics and Life Sciences from 2017-2019. He currently serves as a Dean of the Behavioral and Social Sciences at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland.
Dr. Amy Fletcher is an independent scholar and foresight practitioner. She achieved the rank of Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She specializes in technology and public policy.