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Biopolitics: A preliminary history
Author(s) -
Peterson Steven A.,
Somit Albert
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197910)15:4<333::aid-jhbs2300150406>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - biopower , politics , orientation (vector space) , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , philosophy , law , geometry , mathematics
Events both inside and outside the discipline have rendered political science amenable to testing a more biological orientation. The contemporary biopolitics movement began its vigorous development in 1967, and there is evidence that since that time the biological orientation has had an impact upon the discipline, although the future of biopolitics is not yet certain.