1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life
This chapter outlines a research area that is termed the scientific governing of life. The chapter includes sections on ‘Populations’, ‘Biologies’, and ‘Futures’, showing how these themes are crucial in the study of biomedicine and society. Within each theme, research is introduced that exemplifies...
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| description | This chapter outlines a research area that is termed the scientific governing of life. The chapter includes sections on ‘Populations’, ‘Biologies’, and ‘Futures’, showing how these themes are crucial in the study of biomedicine and society. Within each theme, research is introduced that exemplifies different aspects of the social study of biomedical knowledge production and related power relations. The focus is on how biomedical research and treatment practices orientate towards human life as an object of governing. Studies mapped also include those that expand the relationship between knowledge and governing through foregrounding the agency of more-than-human participants in biomedical practice. Finally, the chapter discusses scholarship that focuses on highly experimental technologies which call for novel methodological explorations on biomedical knowledge applications. The chapter argues that many studies within this research area work at the intersection of Foucauldian analytics of power, new materialist theorizing, and speculative social research. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1734142026-03-10T12:35:36Z 1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life Meskus, Mianna Scientific governing; Life; Population; Biology; Future; Methodology MBS KNDC MBN MBND This chapter outlines a research area that is termed the scientific governing of life. The chapter includes sections on ‘Populations’, ‘Biologies’, and ‘Futures’, showing how these themes are crucial in the study of biomedicine and society. Within each theme, research is introduced that exemplifies different aspects of the social study of biomedical knowledge production and related power relations. The focus is on how biomedical research and treatment practices orientate towards human life as an object of governing. Studies mapped also include those that expand the relationship between knowledge and governing through foregrounding the agency of more-than-human participants in biomedical practice. Finally, the chapter discusses scholarship that focuses on highly experimental technologies which call for novel methodological explorations on biomedical knowledge applications. The chapter argues that many studies within this research area work at the intersection of Foucauldian analytics of power, new materialist theorizing, and speculative social research. Published 2026-03-10T12:35:33Z 2026-03-10T12:35:33Z 2026-01-20 chapter 9781035325511 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173414 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-biomedicine-and-society-9781035325504.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035325511/chapter1.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035325511.00008 10.4337/9781035325511.00008 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035325511 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
| spellingShingle | Scientific governing; Life; Population; Biology; Future; Methodology MBS KNDC MBN MBND Meskus, Mianna 1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life |
| title | 1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life |
| title_full | 1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life |
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| title_short | 1: Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life |
| title_sort | 1 populations biologies and futures research on the scientific governing of life |
| topic | Scientific governing; Life; Population; Biology; Future; Methodology MBS KNDC MBN MBND |
| topic_facet | Scientific governing; Life; Population; Biology; Future; Methodology MBS KNDC MBN MBND |
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