Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Why Biopower? Why Now? 1
5. PART I : ORIGINS OF BIOPOWER
6. ONE / The Literary Birth of Biopolitics (translated by Christopher Penfield) 29
7. TWO / At the Origins of Biopolitics (translated by Diana Garvin) 48
8. THREE / Biopower and the Avalanche of Printed Numbers 65
9. FOUR / Biopolitics and the Concept of Life 82
10. FIVE / Power and Biopower in Foucault 102
11. PART II : THE QUESTION OF LIFE
12. SIX / Foucault, Cuvier, and the Science of Life 121
13. SEVEN / The Archaeology of Biopower: From Plant to Animal Life in The Order of Things 138
14. EIGHT / The Biotechnological Scala Naturae and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: 158
15. PART III : MEDICINE AND SEXUALITY
16. NINE / Patient Activism and Biopolitics: Thinking through Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs 183
17. TEN / The Biopolitics of HIV Prevention Discourse 199
18. ELEVEN / Precarious Life: Butler and Foucault on Biopolitics 228
19. PART IV : NEOLIBERALISM AND GOVERNMENTALITY:
20. TWELVE / Who’s Being Disciplined Now? Operations of Power in a Neoliberal World 245
21. THIRTEEN / Is There a Biopolitical Subject? Foucault and the Birth of Biopolitics (translated by Samantha Bankston) 259
22. FOURTEEN / Discordant Practices of Freedom and Power of/over Lives: Three Snapshots on the Bank Effects of the Arab Uprisings 274
23. PART V : BIOPOWER TODAY
24. FIFTEEN / Biopower Today 297
25. SIXTEEN / A Colonial Reading of Foucault: Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves 326
26. SEVENTEEN / Totalitarianism or Biopolitics? Concerning a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century(translated by Timothy Campbell) 348
27. Contributors 361
28. Index 369