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Biopower-on-Skin: Electricity generation from sweat-eating bacteria for self-powered E-Skins
, 2020 Electronic skins or ‘e-skins’ have recently emerged as a novel platform for electronics, taking on more important roles in health diagnostics, therapeutics, and monitoring.
M. Mohammadifar +4 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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, 2000 Biomass is a proven option for electricity generation. A diverse range of biopower producers includes electric utilities, independent power producers, and the pulp and paper industry.
Shepherd, P.
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Science and power over life: science fiction and biotechnology in films
Intexto, 2012 This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”.
Carmen Irene Oliveira +2 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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Zoe, Bios and the Language of Biopower [PDF]
, 2010 My dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of populations.
Hansen, Sarah K.
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Sociedade e Estado, 2006 Este artigo analisa discursos acerca do desenvolvimento rural e sua aproximação com um particular entendimento de exercício de poder, com base em entrevistas realizadas com agentes do denominado campo tecnocientífico vinculado às ciências agrárias no sul
Adriano Premebida, Jalcione Almeida
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how students experiencing mental unwellness negotiate psychiatric constructs of mental health to make their suffering morally legible within the North American University context. I argue while the psychiatric construct remains pervasive, students are ambivalent toward it as a metaphor for their distress.
Adrianna Nicole Wiley
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Technique, medicalization and virtualization of the body
Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2010 This paper discusses on the technique as something unique to humans, as a first expressed memory, as a human millieu that serves as a determinant of the corporal confrontation of reality or “work”.
Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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