The economization of life

The economization of life / Michelle Murphy.

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at go...

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Main Author: Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Family planning > Economic aspects.
Family policy > Economic aspects.
Fertility, Human > Political aspects.
Fertility, Human > Social aspects.
United States > Population policy.
Bangladesh > Population policy.
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Call Number: HB883.5 .M88 2017
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