Provides an approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodoligical and conceptual basis of this approach and a new final chapter considers some of the implications of recent developments.

Review of governmentality literature, derived from Foucault, which breaks new ground in ethics and politics.

Inventing Our Selves radically approaches the regime of the self and the values that animate it.

This volume brings together for the first time key papers from the the work of influential social theorists Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of their approach to the analysis of political power and the state.

Inventing Our Selves radically approaches the regime of the self and the values that animate it.

This volume brings together for the first time key papers from the the work of influential social theorists Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of their approach to the analysis of political power and the state.

Examines the developments in life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. This book analyzes molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry.

Review of governmentality literature, derived from Foucault, which breaks new ground in ethics and politics.