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Science 27 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5837, pp. 454 - 456
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144402
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SOCIOLOGY:
Reflecting on the Surfaces of Life

Rebecca M. Herzig

The Politics of Life Itself
Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
by Nikolas Rose
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. 367 pp. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780691121901. Paper, $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691121918.
Rose explores some political, social, and ethical consequences of the shift of biomedicine's focus from the practice of healing to the governance of life.
The reviewer is at the Program in Women and Gender Studies, Pettengill Hall 209, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA. E-mail: rherzig{at}bates.edu

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