Description: Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pandemic. In exploring the entanglements of mental and physical health in an age of biotechnology, it views the post-Cold War 1990s as the horizon for understanding the intersection of technoscience and culture in the early twenty-first century.
Review Quotes: "This is a hugely ambitious, impressively researched, transdisciplinary analysis linking the political, intellectual, and cultural debates over a range of biotechnologies and constantly addressing key conceptual and ethical questions about how we might understand the ways new human technologies are reshaping our bodies and our selves in our 'posthuman' age."
--Nikolas Rose "author of The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Cent"