The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Barbara Katz Rothman

Book Overview

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is nothing short of an imperial power. Factors as fundamental as one's citizenship and sex identity-drivers of our access to basic goods and services-rely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503628817
• ISBN13: 9781503628816
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Stanford Briefs
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.9"