The genetics of politics: Body politic | The Economist

On medicine and politics.

This paper explores the relationship between medicine and politics, between medical management of the human body and governmental management of the body politic. It argues that the increasing complexity both of society and of governmental administration of society in the modern age has made it impossible completely to separate medicine from politics. It demonstrates that, along with great poten...

Identity Notes Part II: Redeeming the Body Politic

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

Impairment, Discrimination, and the Legal Construction of Disability in the European Union and the United States

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 R I. From the Body to the Body Politic: The Transformation of Disability Law in the United States and the European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 R A. Politics of the Body Disabled: The Medic...

Deleuze and Wexler: Thinking Brain, Body and Affect in Social Context

subject, but populations of subjects, with varying distributions of capacities. And the practices that produce these capacities can be analyzed with political categories. Following Deleuze's bio-political orientation, we can call the socially embedded person the "body politic." The relationality of bodies politic is shown when we consider that access to training in affective and cognitive copin...