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A founder's reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Steven A. Peterson
Steven A. Peterson*
Affiliation:
School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057. sap12@psu.edu

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This essay reflects on the past, present, and future of biopolitics, starting with the academic interest in the link between biology and politics. Examples of primitive adumbrations of this approach appear throughout academic history; however, the modern roots of biology and politics began in the 1960s. This reflection traces biopolitics from its modern birth through the 1990s, and considers future research endeavors related to biology and politics.

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Type
Founders' Forum
Information
Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 2011, pp. 91 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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