The Biomedical Empire - by Barbara Katz Rothman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A global pandemic opens our eyes to the power the Biomedical Empire has become in our lives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A global pandemic opens our eyes to the power the Biomedical Empire has become in our lives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>After the post-colonial critique of empire and the Foucauldian critique of biopower, Katz Rothman exposes the insidious reach of the biomedical empire, a global industry that has appropriated our capacity to care, commodified our sense of well-being, and seized full control over the beginning and end of life. Essential sociological reading for anyone interested in rescuing critical medical sociology from the clutches of right-wing populism.--Finn Bowring "Cardiff University"<br><br>This book identifies the Biomedical Empire as the global leviathan monopolizing control of medicalized/industrialized healthcare, a truly imperial system defined by the bottom-line logic of 21st-century corporate- and finance-dominated global capitalism. This short, provocative account wonderfully illustrates how all this top-down-controlled machinery impacts intimate human events like birth, death, and the lonely terror of COVID-19 pandemic victims.--David Smith, University of California "Irvine"<br><br>Women have always been healers, the wise women. Barbara Katz Rothman shows how medicine has taken over the gates of life, the care of our bodies, and what has cost communities and cultures around the world.--Barbara Ehrenreich "author of <i>Natural Causes</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Barbara Katz Rothman</b> is Professor of Sociology, at the City University of New York. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her awards include the Jesse Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, and an award for Midwifing the Movement from the Midwives Alliance of North America, and a distinguished Chair in Health Sciences from the Fulbright Association. She is the author of numerous books, most recently <i>A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization</i> (2016).
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