Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow introduced into American cultural anthropology Michel Foucault’s work on the genealogy of social norms and the emergence of biopolitics. He then applied this method to the new forms of biotechnologies that appeared in California in the 1980s and spread to the rest of the world through various political mechanisms. In the 2000s, he examined the norms of biosecurity governing the dissemination of biotechnologies, particularly the injunction to prepare for future disasters.
