Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics

Essays on technology's effect on our relationship with our bodies: "A timely and perceptive look . . . at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." —Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

As birth, illness, and death increasingly come under technological control, struggles arise over who should control the body and define its limits and capacities. Biotechnologies turn the traditional "facts of life" into matters of expert judgment and partisan debate. They blur the b...