Biopolitics and Healing in a Mass Milieu

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought attention to the critical conceptualization of biopolitics in a milieu of mass healing, such as in India. Contributors discuss themes such as geropolitics, pandemic reflections on old age, borders and logistics, immunization of humans, and the humanization of immunity. The book also explores the medico-therapeutical discourse embedded in philosophy of medicine and philosophical modernity, tracing its interstitial positioning as therapeutic-assemblages in a milieu of mass healing.

Format: Hardback
Length: 110 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, several key concepts of biopolitics have come under scrutiny. This volume aims to critically conceptualize biopolitics within a milieu of mass healing, such as in India. Contributors to this volume explore crucial themes such as geropolitics and pandemic reflections on the question of old age, borders and logistics in a world emerging from the pandemic, immunization of humans and humanization of immunity, thus defining the Indian contexts of the biopolitical problematic.

Extending its analysis into a retrospective vision of thought traditions and socio-political underpinnings that shaped modernity and post-coloniality in India, the book also explores the medico-therapeutical discourse embedded in the philosophy of medicine and philosophical modernity, tracing its interstitial positioning as therapeutic-assemblages in a milieu of mass healing.

This book will be valuable for scholars and researchers of biopolitics, philosophy, political philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, medical sociology, health and well-being, and cultural studies.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032200408