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Stein, Claudia. (2011) The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany. Medical History, Vol.55 (No.3). pp. 331-337. ISSN 0025-7273

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Abstract

In April 2009, Sir David Attenborough, the respected face and voice of British natural history programmes for more than fifty years, became the patron of a new charity, the
Optimum Population Trust (OPT), an organisation campaigning to limit the world’s population. His reason for accepting the honour, he confessed to The Times, was that he was terribly worried about the dramatic increase of the world’s population and the effect it was having on the quality of human life throughout the world: There are three times as many people in the world as when I started making television programmes only a mere fifty-six years ago. It is frightening.We can’t go on as we have been. We are seeing the consequences in terms of ecology, atmospheric pollution and in terms of the space and food production.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

D History General and Old World > DD Germany
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)

Divisions:

Faculty of Arts > History
Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Biopolitics -- Germany -- History -- 18th century, Bavaria (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 18th century, Overpopulation -- Environmental aspects

Journal or Publication Title:

Medical History

Publisher:

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

ISSN:

0025-7273

Official Date:

July 2011

Dates:

Date	Event
July 2011	Published

Volume:

Vol.55

Number:

No.3

Page Range:

pp. 331-337

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Publication Status:

Published

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

Version or Related Resource:

Stein, C. (2009). The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany. History of Medicine Seminar, Department for the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, 4th May. ; Stein, C. (2010). The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany. Zentralinstitut für Geschichte der Technik, Deutsches Museum, Munich, 14th July.

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