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Deadly Biocultures: Index

Deadly Biocultures

Index

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to figures.

activism: around aging, 127–32; cancer, 9, 20, 23, 24–26; in cemeteries, 157–58, 225n101; citizenship, 87, 202n81; health-related, 65; obesity interventions, 75–79, 80, 202n84; social-networking, 41. See also militancy/militarism

adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs), 10–11, 73, 84–89, 93–94, 200n59, 200n62, 201n68; brown adipose tissue cell, 70

Advanced Cosmetic Surgery, fat banking by, 87

affect: of hope, 21–24, 28, 29, 31, 36, 39, 40; Massumi’s theory of, 172n5

affirmation(s): of afterlife, 12–13, 135–59, 161–62; biopolitics of, 3–4, 39, 163, 166n5, 171n47; to green death, 11, 12–13, 135–59, 161–62; of health, 115; of hope, 8–9, 19–45; politics of, 3–4, 135, 161; to secure the life of the aging, 11–12, 38–39, 97–132; to target, 9–10, 47–68, 191n85; to thrive, 10–11, 71–94; in U.S. biocultures, 6, 7, 8–13. See also life

African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT), 52–53, 184n24, 185n30

African Americans: cancer incidence rates in, 39, 40, 88; fatness and obesity in, 80–81; health disparities/problems of, 48, 56, 60, 179n79, 182n13; heart failure in, 9, 49, 52–54, 55, 113–14, 185n29; loss of sovereignty over dead bodies, 152, 154, 157; slavery/slaves, 182n13, 222n79; subjection of, 67. See also BiDil; blackness/blacks; medical hot-spotting; race; racism

afterlife: affirmation of, 12–13, 135–59, 161–62; biocultures of, 136, 138–49, 156; biopresence in, 144, 145–49; death justice, 156–59; governance of, 144, 150, 151; greening of, 12–13, 146–55. See also bioremediation; burials; death

Agamben, Giorgio, 15

Age Gain Now Empathy System (AGNES, prosthetic suit), 126–27, 127

aging, 97–132; activism regarding, 127–32; age-related decline, 11, 12, 98–100, 105, 112–24; aging well, 99–111; biofinancialization of, 11–12, 98–99, 107–11; biomedicalization of, 12, 115–24, 128, 202n6; biopolitics of, 11, 108, 110, 116; counterconducts of, 124–32; Foucault on, 97; governance of, 12, 100, 108, 111–24; vulnerability of, 12, 127–28, 132–33. See also biocultures, U.S.; eldercare; independent living; productivity; third age

ambulatory care facilities, 117, 209n100

American Cancer Society (ACS), 24, 26, 174n18

American CryoStem Corporation, fat banking by, 87

American Heart Foundation, predictions by, 94

American Indians. See Native Americans

American Medical Association, Resolution 420, 74

Anatomy Bequest Program (Mayo Clinic), 143

AstraZeneca (pharmaceutical company), 26, 34

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, 30–31

Baba Yaga House, 130

“Banners of Hope” (poem), 19, 20

Beautiful and Bald Movement, 41

Berlant, Lauren, 16, 71, 77, 81, 90, 170n40

Best Cities for Successful Aging, rankings of, 102

BiDil (heart failure drug), 9, 10, 49, 50–56, 59, 64; FDA approval, 184n21, 184n24, 185n28, 185n30; sales from, 186n36. See also pharmaceuticals

biocapital, 14, 111

biocitizenship, 6, 24, 81; neoliberal, 60, 190n76; Rose on, 13, 55, 174n14. See also biological subcitizenship; citizenship

biocultures, U.S., 1–8; affirmations in, 6, 7, 8–13; of afterlife, 136, 138–49, 156; of aging, 11–12, 97–100, 105–6, 112, 115, 124, 128, 132, 203n6; alternative, 7, 16; of anti-obesity, 72, 73–82, 89–90; of cancer, 9, 20, 21–24, 25, 28, 29–39, 40; of death, 138–49; of erasure, 117–24; of hope, 23; of late liberalism, 14, 164; of life-making, 2, 72, 161; of race-based health, 48–52, 57; of stem-cell science, 72–73, 82–90, 93–94; transnational nature of, 168n27; use of term, 6–7, 169n36

bioeconomy: of death, 147–48; of the human body, 142; race-specific, 55–56. See also economy; political economy

bioethics, 35–39. See also ethics

biofinancialization: of aging, 11–12, 98–99, 107–11; of racial differences, 54–56, 57

biofutures, 163–64; alternative, 8, 68. See also futurity

bio-identities, 105

BioLife Cell Bank, LLC: fat banking by, 87

biological subcitizenship, 16, 81, 125, 199n46. See also biocitizenship; citizenship

biomedicine, U.S.: abolitionist, 10, 63–68; of aging, 12, 115–24, 128, 203n6; of cancer, 174n21; centrality of, 1–2; convergence of culture and, 6; of fatness, 76; for-profit sector, 116–17, 209n100; of health, 25, 112–13; hope’s role in, 22–23, 26, 35, 41; of human body, 27, 103, 105–6; infrastructures of care, 31–34; of life, 14, 38, 164; logics of, 7, 10, 17, 28, 125, 164, 169n36; neoliberal biopolitics and, 5–6; racialized, 47–52, 57–58, 181n9, 182n13; rationalities of, 15, 29, 169n36; religion in, 37–39; use of term, 166n3. See also medicine

biopiracy, 13, 137, 152, 182n13, 191n87

biopolitics: of affirmation, 3–4, 39, 163, 166n5, 171n47; of aging, 11, 108, 110, 118; of death, 15, 141, 144, 145, 147, 149–50, 154; discipline and, 8–9, 167n16; of disposability, 16, 67, 111, 124, 183n14; Foucault on, 2–3, 64, 138, 215n1; governance function of, 64, 108; of hope, 22; of letting die, 41, 161; of life, 4, 81, 110; of life-making, 23, 37, 99, 119, 161; of make live / let die relationship, 12–13, 162, 164; neoliberal, 5–6, 14–15, 51, 63, 124, 164, 174n19; race-specific, 9–10, 47–52, 55, 57, 61, 63–64, 66, 68; of security, 97, 203n5. See also politics

biopower: economy of, 82; Foucault on, 2, 166n7, 167n17. See also power

biopresence, 137, 141, 144, 145–49, 150, 153–54, 215n6

bioremediation, 12–13, 136–38, 141–48, 149, 150–55, 156, 215n5

bios, 15

biosecurity, 191n85; racialized, 57–63. See also security

biosociality, 13, 55, 175n29

biosurveillance, 60, 62, 63, 105–6. See also medical hot-spotting; surveillance

biotechnologies: cancer, 27, 35, 38; of corpse disposal, 12–13, 152; race-based targeting by, 48–52. See also adipose-derived stem cells; bioremediation; resomation; technologies

biovalue, 110, 142, 150; Rose on, 14, 72–73

Black Lives Matter, die-ins, 66–68, 67

blackness/blacks: bodies of, 48, 59, 60; in Camden, 187n52; equated with risk, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 64; health disparities/problems of, 56, 183n16; inequities in health care for, 181nn5–6; as Other, 49–50; use of term, 169n29, 182n10; vulnerability of, 10, 50. See also African Americans; racism; violence

Black Panther Party, 65–66, 66

Bliss, James, 182n10

Boards of Hope (art-based cancer initiative), 30

body, human: acting on, 165n2; age-related decline of, 11, 12, 98–100, 105, 112–24; anatamo-politics of, 3; bioeconomy of, 147–48; biomedicalization of, 27, 103, 105–6; black, 48, 59, 60; disciplining of, 27, 28, 77, 167n17; ideal or normative, 71, 76, 77; problem, 64; racialized, 50, 54, 62; vulnerability of, 9, 20, 164. See also corpses

Body Mass Index (BMI), 75, 77, 79, 194n3. See also fat/fatness; obesity

breast cancer: alternative views of, 42–44; hope in fight against, 9, 23–39; poster depicting attack on, 18; racial disparities in incidences of, 40, 88, 201n77. See also cancer; war on cancer

breast reconstruction, 83, 85–86, 200n61; using fat tissue for, 87, 88–89, 202n80. See also adipose-derived stem cells

Brenner, Jeffrey, 187n54, 187n56

Broom, Dorothy, 31

Brown, Nik, 22

Brown, Wendy, 165n1

burials: green, 134, 146–48; of indigent or unknown people, 153, 223n87; no remains movement, 141, 142–45, 150–52, 156–59, 218n28, 220n56; volunteers helping with, 225n100. See also cemeteries; corpses; funeral industry

Bursey, Charles (Black Panther), 66

Bush, Haydn, 47

Butler, Judith, 150, 167n14

Cacho, Lisa Marie, 16

Camden (New Jersey): demographics of, 187n49, 187n52; medical hot-spotting in, 9, 49, 57–63, 187n56

cancer: activism regarding, 9, 20, 23, 24–26; in African Americans, 39, 40, 88; awareness of, 174n18; biocultures of, 9, 20, 21–24, 25, 28, 29–39, 40; biomedicalization of, 174n21; fighting through hope, 8–9, 19–45; infrastructures of care, 31–34; material emergence of, 86, 90, 93; politics of, 40, 43, 44; stem cell proliferation as cause of, 11; survival rates, 27, 29, 31, 33, 39–40. See also breast cancer; war on cancer

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), 38–39

Cantor, David, 174n21

capitalism: commodity, 15, 87; late, 141; racial, 150; rise of, 167n12. See also biocapital; economy

care, 132, 164; cardiac, 113–14, 208n86; customized delivery of, 51, 63; deadly, 12, 99, 112, 119–21, 124; death, 138–49; hope and, 31–34; improving structural conditions of, 128; infrastructures of, 31–34; medicalization of, 120; mother standard of, 178n68; politics of, 161; racially segmented, 62–63. See also ambulatory care facilities; eldercare; health care; home care; hospices; hospitals; nursing homes; self-care

Carey, Bob, The Tutu Project, 42–43, 43, 44, 45

Carmona, Richard, 74

Carney, Megan A., 92

cemeteries, 217n23, 223n87; activism at, 157–58, 225n101; African American, 157; conservation burial grounds, 220n62, 221n63; defilement of, 224n98; military grave, 158; reform of, 139–40, 217n17; segregation in, 154, 155. See also burials; death; funeral industry; greening death

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): on nursing homes, 118; on obesity, 73–74, 78

Chandra, Rajshree, 169n36

Chemed Corp., 123–24

chemotherapy, 23, 32, 37, 173n13. See also war on cancer

citizenship: active, 87, 202n81; ideal, 60, 80, 89; in late liberalism, 13; new forms of, 28, 107. See also biocitizenship; biological subcitizenship

City of Hope (Los Angeles cancer center), 32

Clarke, Adele, 1–2

class: cancer incidence rates based on, 39, 40; inequities in funeral practices based on, 138, 154, 156; material deprivation based on, 80; retirement quality based on, 101, 104. See also poor people

coffins, environmental, 134. See also burials

cohousing, 128–31, 213n157

Cohousing Association of the United States, 129

commemoratives, creating from human body, 12, 146, 148–49, 150, 152, 221n68. See also DNA trees

Congressional Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), 225n101

containment: of African-American freedom, 181n6; of corpses, 139–40, 141, 215n3; cost, 59, 63, 189n66; spatial, 62; threat, 51

Cook, Deborah, 167n12

Cooper, Melinda, 5, 14, 97

corpses, disposal of, 135–36, 215n2, 222n80; greening, 12–13, 146, 154, 155; minorities’ loss of sovereignty over, 152, 154; no remains movement, 141, 142–45, 150–53, 156–59, 218n28, 220n56. See also bioremediation; burials; commemoratives; embalming

cremation, 139, 146, 153; direct, 222n82; flameless, 144, 152; materials used for, 218n39, 219n50, 220n53; popularity of, 138, 140–41, 143–45, 217n23. See also resomation

crime hot-spotting, 57–58, 62. See also medical hot-spotting

critique, 17, 45, 180n89; Foucault on, 163–64, 180n89, 226n12

culture. See biocultures, U.S.

Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.: RESTORE procedure, 200n62

Czerny, Vincent, 83

data mining, 191n87. See also medical hot-spotting

Davies, Douglas James, 155

Davies, Joe, 149, 221n73

Davis, Leonard J., 169n36

Deason, Lucinda M., 120

death: acceptance of, 42, 44, 163–64; affirmation of, 11, 135–59; avoiding, 112–13; biocultures of, 138–49; biopolitics of, 15, 141, 144, 145, 147, 149–50, 154; commodification of, 146, 151; ecology of, 146–48; equated with blackness, 49; Foucault on, 5, 15, 161; good, 115, 159; governance of, 137, 141–42, 155, 156, 159, 215n1; home, 147, 221n64; justice in, 156–59; obscuring, 9, 16, 28, 31, 39, 40–41, 135; politics of, 8, 14–15, 170n39; racialization of, 60, 224n97; studies of, 215n4. See also afterlife; burials; corpses; funeral industry; greening death; letting die; life-making; make live / let die relationship; slow death; social death

death-in-life, 16, 142, 163; forms of, 8, 15, 17, 149–50

deathscapes, 139–40, 147, 154, 156. See also cemeteries

Delvecchio-Good, Mary-Jo, 21

dependency, 100, 104; shadowlands of, 115–24

Derrida, Jacques, 162, 226n5

Descartes, René, 194n5

Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Prospective Payment System (Medicare), 115–16, 119, 208n94, 209n97, 209n100

die-ins, 67, 67–68, 194n106

diet industry, 76, 82. See also intervention(s)

Dillon, Michael, 48, 97

disability: avoiding, 98, 105; nonproductivity and, 111, 124; treating oldness as, 106–7

disability-adjusted life-years (DALY), 109–11, 207n68; infographic showing, 96

discipline, 7, 167n14; biopolitics and, 8–9, 167n16; of dead bodies, 141, 154; Foucault on, 3, 167n12; hope as form of, 8–9, 22, 37, 39, 41; of human body, 27, 28, 77, 167n17; to overcome obesity, 72, 75, 76; self-care as, 190n76; technologies for, 31, 167n17. See also governance; regularizing/regulation

Discount Gun Sales company, 26, 175n23

discrimination. See racism

disease: avoiding, 98, 105; racial disparities in, 39–40, 60, 88, 201n77; social etiologies of, 65, 186n41; surveillance of, 27

disposability, biopolitics of, 16, 67, 111, 124, 183n14. See also corpses

Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC), 128, 212n142

DNA trees, 149, 154, 221n73. See also commemoratives

drugs. See pharmaceuticals

Du Bois, W. E. B., 51, 63, 181n5, 181n7; The Philadelphia Negro, 47, 48, 50

DuPuis, Melanie, 80

Duster, Troy, 53–54

economy: affective, 32; of aging, 108–9, 115, 124; of biopower, 82; corporate, 26; of health, 111, 124; new forms of, 107, 165n1; power and, 82, 167n12; volunteer, 101. See also bioeconomy; capitalism; political economy

Edelman, Lee, 17

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 26, 30, 31

eldercare, 105, 112, 115–24, 204n23. See also care; cohousing; Diverse Elders Coalition; home care; hospices; nursing homes

embalming, 138–39, 141; alternative methods of, 147, 220n52; eschewing, 146, 158. See also burials; corpses; funeral industry

Encore.org, 101

epidemiology, 75, 76, 191n87

epigenetics, 81

Esposito, Robert O., 14–15, 171n47

Eternal Reef, 148–49

Eternity company, 148

ethics: as form of critique, 17; Foucault on, 226n14; of vulnerability, 227n16. See also bioethics

Ettlinger, Nancy, 118

extrabiomedical sphere, 12, 112, 117–24. See also biomedicine, U.S.

failure to thrive (FTT), 10, 72, 78, 195n6

Fanon, Frantz, 226n11

Fassin, Didier, 81, 162, 199n46

fat banking, 11, 87–88, 93, 202n88

fat/fatness, 71–94; as failure to thrive, 10, 72, 78, 195n6; hunger’s correlation to, 198n44; interventions against, 75–79, 81–82, 89–90; negative views of, 71–72, 73–89; politics of, 202n84; posters protesting weight bigotry, 91, 92; racialization of, 80–81, 198n43; regenerative medicine from, 10–11; white fat tissue cell, 70. See also adipose-derived stem cells; obesity; stem cells

Federal Action Plan of May 2010, reducing obesity, 79

fitness, 102; programs of, 10, 76, 79, 82, 198n38; for retirement, 104, 105; Rose on, 165n2; use of term, 196n17

Fjord, Lakshmi, 113

Flint (Michigan), deaths from water crisis in, 153

food deserts, 81, 198n38, 198nn42–43

Foucault, Michel: on adult adoption, 131; on aging, 97; on biopolitics, 2–3, 64, 138, 215n1; on the clinical gaze, 194n3; on critique, 163–64, 180n89, 226n12; on death, 5, 15, 161; on discipline, 3, 167n12; on ethics, 226n14; on make live / let die relationship, 4; on power, 2, 77, 166n7, 167n17, 168n18, 170n40; on racism, 47, 138, 149, 181n3; on truth, 131, 173n8

fourth age, shadowlands of, 99, 112, 115–24. See also aging; third age

Franke, Katherine, 181n6

Franklin, Sarah, 21

Free Breakfast for Children program (Black Panther Party), 65, 66

Freedman’s Bureau, 181n6

Frost, Samantha, 169n36

Fukuhara, Shiho, 149, 215n6

functional aging, 104–7; maintenance of, 108, 126; promoting, 111, 124. See also aging; third age

funeral industry, 138–41, 151, 158, 216n11, 224n95. See also burials; cemeteries; corpses; death

futurity, 50, 64, 66, 87, 111, 202n81. See also biofutures

gaze, medicalized, 102, 120, 191n85, 194n3

gender, 39–40, 150, 198n38, 206n53

Generations United, 131

Genetic Risk Assessment in Heart Failure (GRAHF) study, 185n30. See also African-American Heart Failure Trial

gerontology, 98, 104, 106, 124. See also aging; eldercare

Gilmore, Ruth “Ruthie” Wilson, 16, 168n23

Giroux, Henry A., 16, 183n14

Give Hope Box, 29

Golden Girls Roommate Network, 129–30

Golder, Ben, 131

governance: of afterlife, 144, 150, 151; of aging, 12, 100, 108, 111–24; in biocultures of cancer, 39; biopolitical, 64, 108; of blacks, 181nn5–6; of the dead/of death, 124–25, 135–38, 141–42, 145, 150–51, 154–56, 159, 215n1; of health, 57, 61; hope as form of, 8–9, 20, 22, 25; of life, 2, 28, 100, 104, 149, 161, 162; modes of, 15; of obesity, 72, 75–77, 89–90; racial, 16, 50–51, 63, 150; rationalities of, 98, 165n1; of risk, 56; of urban civil society, 192n92. See also discipline; regularizing/regulation

Gray Panthers, 127–28, 129

Greco, Monica, 71

Green Burial Council, 147

greening death: affirmation to, 12–13, 135–59, 161–62; biocultures of death care, 138–49; bioremediation of dead body, 141–49; death justice, 156–59; green burial pod, 134; greening afterlives, 149–55

Gupta, Pamila, 135

Guthman, Julie, 80

Hammond, Augustine, 120

Haraway, Donna, 143

Hartman, Saidiya, 226n11

Havighurst, Robert, 98

health, 5, 108, 115, 207n68; biomedical model of, 25, 112–13; enterprises of, 27, 65; governance of, 57, 61; individualizing, 55–56, 89; metrics of, 107–12, 124; race-specific biopolitics of, 9–10, 47–52, 57, 64, 66, 68, 189n63; racial disparities in, 48, 56, 60, 179n79, 182n13, 183n16; social and environmental factors of, 189n66, 193n93. See African Americans; Latinx; public health

Health at Every Size (HAES) movement, 90, 91, 92

health care, 3, 8; cost reduction efforts in, 186n48; provision of, 6, 100, 110, 118; race-based inequities in, 181nn5–6; routinization of, 113–15. See also care; eldercare; home care; self-care

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 187n56

heart failure, in African Americans, 9, 49, 52–54, 55, 113–14, 185n29. See also BiDil

Hedrick, Marc, 83

Hemmings, Clare, 21

home care, 128–31, 204n24, 209n100; technologies for, 102–4, 106. See also care; cohousing; eldercare; health care; self-care

home deaths, 147, 221n64. See also death

Hong, Grace Kyungwon, 15–16

Hoops 4 Hope, 30

hope: affirmation of, 8–9, 19–45; affect of, 21–24, 28, 29, 31, 36, 39, 40; alternative tactics for, 39–45; bioethics of faith, 35–39; biomedicalization of, 22–23, 26, 35, 41; commercialization of, 44; discipline and, 8–9, 22, 37, 39, 41; as form of militancy, 24–28, 172n4; as governance, 8–9, 20, 22, 25; infrastructures of care, 31–34; in late liberalism, 9, 20; logics of, 171n3; martial qualities of, 172n4; spectacles of, 29–31; of survival, 163; as weapon in war on cancer, 23, 24–39

Hope Barbie (doll), 41–42, 180n83

Hope Cancer Ministries (HCM), 42

Hope handgun, 26, 27–28, 29, 175n23

HopeLab (nonprofit organization), 36

Hope Lodge network (ACS), 33–34

Hope on Wheels (Hyundai), 30

hope scales, 36

hospices, 12, 111, 117–18, 121–24, 125, 130, 211n127

hospitals, 116–17, 209n100, 210n102

hot-spotting. See crime hot-spotting; medical hot-spotting

housing. See cohousing

Human Longevity Inc., 106

Hunt, Alastair, 17

immigrants, 123, 153, 168n27

implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), 113–14, 208n86

Implant Recycling LLC, 143

Inda, Jonathan, 54, 56, 186n41

independent living, 101–4, 105, 106–7, 204n24; promoting, 108, 111, 124. See also aging; third age

individualism, 126, 131, 203n14

Infinity Burial Suit, 147

intergenerational housing. See cohousing

Intergenerational Learning Centre, 130–31

intervention(s): into aging, 99, 105, 108; biomedical, 112–15; into disposal of corpses, 135–36; ethical, 16; against fatness, 72, 75–79, 81–82, 89–90; targeted, 10, 49–51, 59, 64

I STAND photo campaign, 90, 91, 92, 202n84

Jain, S. Lochlann, 40, 42–43, 111, 163

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, war on poverty, 64–65

Kahn, Jonathan, 52, 53

Kahn, Robert, 98

Kaiser Permanente, motto of, 195n8

Katz, Stephen, 105, 106

Kaufman, Sharon R., 100, 113, 114

Kelly, Suzanne, 135, 153

Kent, Le’a, 72

Kentucky Fried Woman (poster), 91

Kinkara Company, 148

Koop, C. Everett, 74

Laslett, Peter, 98

Latinx: in Camden, 187n52; differential governance of, 50; health disparities/problems of, 60, 80, 183n16. See also minorities

Laurie, Emma Whyte, 110

Lawton, Julia, 122

LeBesco, Kathleen, 90

Lee, Jae Rhim, death suit concept, 147

legacy. See commemoratives

Lemke, Thomas, 167n16

Let’s Move!, childhood fitness campaign, 79, 198n38

letting die, 8, 90, 163; biopolitics of, 41, 161; forms of, 4–5, 15, 81. See also death; make live / let die relationship

liberalism, late: biocultures of, 14, 164; citizenship in, 13; democracies in, 55, 87; forms of hope in, 9, 20; governance of afterlife under, 144; life-making in, 1, 5–6; management of aging in, 106; rationalities of, 98; Rose on, 165n1. See also biopolitics; neoliberalism

life, 2, 167n17, 174n19; affirmation of, 35, 136, 152, 161, 162–64; biomedicalization of, 14, 38, 164; biopolitics of, 4, 81, 110; good, 115, 159; governance of, 2, 28, 100, 104, 149, 161, 162; morbid, 114–15, 125; political economy of, 25, 41; politics of, 14–15, 16, 63, 81, 171n47; power of, 2, 15, 171n47. See also afterlife; make live / let die relationship

life expectancy, 97, 100, 109, 110–11. See also longevity

LifeGem company (Illinois), 148, 221n68

life-making, 1–8; biocultures of, 2, 72, 161; biopolitics of, 23, 37, 99, 119, 161; deadly, 4–5, 8, 13, 124, 162, 164; in late liberalism, 1, 5–6; for managing aging, 112; politics of, 162–63; practices of, 14, 15, 16, 135; U.S. efforts, 168n27. See also make live / let die relationship

Lin, Chih-Chen Trista, 171n47

liposuctions, 84–85, 94. See also fat banking; fat/fatness; obesity

Lipsitz, George, 189n65

Liquid Gold fat bank, 87

Lobo-Guerrero, Luis, 97

longevity, 100–101, 102, 105–6, 107, 108; promoting, 111, 112. See also aging; life expectancy

Look Good . . . Feel Better program (Avon), 30–31

Lorde, Audre, 226n11

Madge, Clare, 137

make live / let die relationship, 4, 115; biopolitics of, 12–13, 162, 164; materializing cancer, 86, 93; rates of, 108–11. See also death; letting die; life-making

mammograms, 27, 31, 88

Markula, Pirkko, 75

Marshall, Barbara L., 105, 106

Massumi, Brian, 172n5

Matthews International Corporation cremation division, 144

Mbembe, Achille, 15

McClain, Rand, 86

McKittrick, Katherine, 163, 226n11

medical hot-spotting, 57–63; in Camden, 9, 49, 57–63, 187n56; data mining for, 191n87; militant nature of, 62, 63, 192n92; origins of, 187n54, 187n56; programs of, 187n61; promotion of self-care, 60–62, 64; race-specific, 10, 50–52, 64, 192n92; in white communities, 192n90. See also biosurveillance; medicine; profiling

Medicare/Medicaid: BiDil coverage, 56; hospice care coverage, 121, 122–23; nursing home coverage, 118, 119–20; obesity treatment, 79; policies/restrictions of, 104, 108. See also Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Prospective Payment System (Medicare)

medicine: race-based, 53, 55, 63–64, 66, 68; racism in, 188n63; regenerative, 10–11, 84. See also biomedicine, U.S.

militancy/militarism, 126, 172n4; hope as form of, 24–28; medical hot-spotting as, 62, 63, 192n92. See also war on cancer

Milken Institute (think tank), 204n24

Minca, Claudio, 171n47

minorities: burial practices disparities, 150, 151–52, 154; cancer survival rate discrepancies, 39–40; fatness and obesity in, 80–81, 198n43; health disparities/problems, 50, 60, 189n63. See also African Americans; Diverse Elders Coalition; Latinx; Native Americans; Otherness

Mission Hope Cancer Center, 32–33

Mitchell, Robert, 83, 86–87

Moody, Harry, 115

Moreira, Tiago, 21

Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, 75

Morgan, Kevin, 110

mourning, 163, 164, 215n4

multigenerational housing. See cohousing

Muñoz, José Esteban, 183n16

Murray, Stuart, 161, 170n40

Mykytyn, Courtney Everts, 100–101

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 26

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, 188n61

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 88

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–10, 74

National Institutes of Health (NIH), statistics on obesity, 75, 80–81

National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, 223n86

National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia, 87–88

Native Americans: differential governance of, 50; dispossessing of bodily sovereignty, 151–52; health disparities/problems of, 60

Neal, Andrew W., 48

necropolitics, 15, 170n39. See also politics

Nelson, Alondra, 65

neoliberalism, 165n1, 172n4; framing what it means to thrive, 16, 93, 104; global health regimes under, 108; ideal citizen concept, 60, 80, 89; logics of, 51–52, 56, 59; rationalities of, 115; renewable resource concept, 150; self-care imperative, 60–61, 190n76, 191n77; white nationalism under, 152. See also biopolitics; liberalism, late

Neopac Pty Ltd., breast reconstruction by, 85–86, 200n65

Nielson, Brett, 107

Nissen, Steven E., 184n21

NitroMed, Inc, 52, 186n36

nonwhites. See African Americans; Latinx; minorities; Native Americans; Otherness

Novas, Carlos, 13, 22

Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987, 121

nursing homes, 12, 117–21, 124, 125, 209n100; alternatives to, 102–3, 128–31. See also eldercare

obesity: biocultures of, 72, 73–82, 89–90; categories of, 194n3; causes of, 72, 75, 80, 90, 93, 197n25; discourses of, 202n88; as failure to thrive, 10, 195n6; health risks of, 71–72; individualization of, 77–82, 89–90, 198n38; interventions against, 72, 75–79, 80, 202n84; statistics on, 73–74. See also fat/fatness

Office of Economic Opportunity (U.S.), 65

old age. See aging; biocultures; eldercare; fourth age; senior citizens; third age

organ donation, 142–43, 152, 153, 222n78, 223n86

Ormond, Meghann, 171n47

Otherness: nonwhites as, 49–50; racial, 51, 52, 54, 59–60, 61, 64, 193n93. See also minorities

Our Journey of Hope (CTCA spiritual support program), 38

overweight. See obesity

Palladino, Paolo, 21

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007), 181n8

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, 40, 79, 179n78, 210n102

Patterson, Orlando, 16, 222n79

Peskin, Sara Manning, 115

pharmaceuticals: anti-obesity, 76, 77–78, 82; race-specific, 46, 63, 185n35. See also BiDil

Pill Pets (electronic device), 103, 204n30

pink warrior, figure of, 26–27, 30, 175n24

political economy, 5, 21–23, 80–81, 97, 191n87; of eldercare, 99, 111, 115–24; of life, 25, 41. See also bioeconomy; economy

politics, 21, 172n5, 191n87; of affirmation, 3–4, 135, 161; of cancer, 40, 43, 44; of death, 8, 14–15, 170n39; of fatness, 202n84; geographies of, 215n4; of life, 14–15, 16, 63, 81, 171n47; of life-making, 162–63; of refusal, 45, 52, 193n100. See also biopolitics

Pollock, Anne, 15, 56

poor people, 123, 150; declining health conditions for, 62–63, 65, 189n63. See also class

Posel, Deborah, 135

poverty: as cause of obesity, 72, 80; funeral, 152–53; statistics on, 57; war on, 64–65

power: economic, 167n12; Foucault on, 77, 166n7, 167n17, 168n18, 170n40; of knowledge, 2, 28, 88, 98; of life, 2, 15, 171n47; racial, 51; related to disposal of human remains, 156–57, 215n2. See also biopower

precarity, 5, 41, 117, 126

Preston, Alistair M., 116, 209n97

productivity, 22–23, 141; maintaining in aging, 97, 100–102, 106–7, 109, 111, 124, 206n53, 207n68

profiling: racial, 53, 62; spatial, 9, 49, 62, 191n85. See also medical hot-spotting

Project Biocultures (University of Illinois–Chicago), 169n36. See also biocultures, U.S.

prostate cancer, racial disparities in incidence rates of, 40

public health: biocultures and, 1; intervening to reduce obesity numbers, 76, 78–79

Puerto Rico, death count from Hurricane Maria, 153

Puig de la Bellacasa, María, 161

Rabinow, Paul, 13, 175n29

race, 47–68; biomedical targeting of, 47–52, 63–68, 181n9, 182n13; cancer rate discrepancies based on, 39–40, 88, 201n77; disparities in control of human remains, 60, 138, 150, 154, 155, 156, 224n97; domination based on, 60, 61–62, 191n87, 222n79; financializing differences in, 54–56, 57; genetics and, 53, 185n31, 186n41; governance of, 50–51, 63; health disparities based on, 51–52, 54–55, 80–81, 163, 181n8, 184n14; medical hot-spotting, 10, 50–52, 64, 192n92; profiling, 53, 62. See also BiDil; biopolitics; blackness/blacks; medicine; pharmaceuticals; whiteness/whites

Racial Justice Project, 80–81

racism: anti-black, 54, 56, 59–60, 64; biological effects of, 193n95; caesuras caused by, 47–48, 149–50; confronting, 67, 194n106; environmental, 182n13; Foucault on, 47, 138, 149, 181n3; governance of the dead and, 16, 150; health disparities based on, 80–81; institutional, 58, 68, 81, 224n97; in medicine, 188n63; new variants of, 189n65; structural, 10, 50, 59, 62–64, 68, 72, 88, 191n78; white nationalism, 152

Rajan, Kaushik Sunder, 14

recycling, orthopedic, 143–44, 152. See also corpses

redlining, medical, 63, 189n63. See also medical hot-spotting

regularizing/regulation: of aging, 104; of death, 136, 147, 215n1; life-making’s function of, 2–3, 4; principles/processes of, 167n14, 168n18; race-based, 48. See also discipline; governance

Relay for Life (ACS), 30

religion, in biomedicine, 37–39

Reminder Rosie (electronic device), 103

Re-mission (video game), 36–37, 177n64

ReServe (nonprofit organization), 101

resomation, 144, 220n52. See also cremation

RESTORE, 85, 200n62

retirement, 101, 104, 105, 127, 204n23

Reverby, Susan M., 185n29

risk(s): biomedicine’s focus on, 1–2; biosurveillance of, 60, 62, 63, 105–6; blackness equated with, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 64; cancer-related, 27, 31, 39, 41; collectivizing, 5, 25; discourse of, 113–14; from obesity, 71–72

Roberts, Dorothy, 185n28

Rose, Nikolas: on active citizenship, 87, 202n81; on biocitizenship, 13, 55, 174n14; on biomedicine, 1, 181n9; on biovalue, 14, 72–73; on fitness, 165n2; on late liberalism, 165n1

Rowe, John, 98, 204n21

Russ, Ann J., 114

Satcher, David, 74

Schultz, Sarah Polzin, 31

secure the life of the aging, affirmation to, 97–132; aging well, 99–111; biofinancialization of aging, 11–12, 98–99, 107–11; counterconducts of aging, 124–32; governance of aging, 100, 108, 111–24; greening afterlives, 149–55; material ethics of human remains, 156–59. See also aging; life

security, 2, 97, 203n5. See also biosecurity

Seed of Hope tokens, 33

segregation. See racism

self-care: as biological responsibility, 55–56; extension of death care into, 150–51; medical hot-spotting’s promotion of, 60–62, 64; neoliberal, 60–61, 190n76, 191n77; new practices of, 27, 36–37; securing productivity through, 100, 101. See also care; eldercare; health care; home care

self-medication, eating as, 90, 93

senior citizens, 65, 124–25, 204n23; living at home, 102, 103. See also aging; Diverse Elders Coalition; eldercare; retirement

shadowlands. See under fourth age

Shim, Janet K., 114

Shouse, Eric, 172n5

Sims, J. Marion, experiments of, 182n13

slavery/slaves, 182n13, 222n79. See also African Americans

slow death, 16, 81

social death, 16, 117, 119, 151, 157, 222n79

Sontag, Susan, 23

spaces: profiling, 9, 49, 62, 191n85; racialized, 50, 59, 62, 63, 64

Sparke, Matthew, 16, 81, 125

spectacles: of the body, 51; of hope, 29–31, 35, 39, 43

Starr69 (poster), 91

Stealth Health (website), 102

stem cells, science of, 72–73, 82–90, 93–94. See also adipose-derived stem cells

subjection, 27, 67, 125, 135, 167n14

surgeries, bariatric, 76, 78, 82. See also intervention(s)

surveillance, 2, 27, 102–3. See also biosurveillance; medical hot-spotting

survival/survivorship, 8, 162–63, 226n5; from cancer, 27, 29, 31, 33, 39–40

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, 30, 31

Sword of Hope symbol (ACS), 24, 25, 28, 174n16

taphonomy, 218n36

target, affirmation to, 9–10, 47–68, 191n85; abolitionist biomedicine, 63–68; race-based biomedical, 48–57, 63–68, 181n9, 182n13; racialized biosecurity, 57–63. See also BiDil; medical hot-spotting; pharmaceuticals

Taussig, Michael, 19

technologies: for discipline, 31, 167n17; geosurveillant, 62–63; for home care, 102–4, 106; normalizing, 167n14; regulatory, 167n17; spatial, 59. See also biotechnologies

Ten Points Program (Black Panther Party), 65

thanatopolitics, 14–15. See also politics

Think Before You Pink (Breast Cancer Action group), 30

third age, 11–12; discourses of, 98–111, 124, 125–26, 206n53. See also aging; fourth age

Thomasma, David C., 110

thrive, affirmation to, 10–11, 71–94, 195n6; alternative ways to, 89–90, 93–94; biocultures of anti-obesity, 73–82; therapeutic uses of fat, 82–89

timebanking, 130–31

Tremmel, Georg, 149, 215n6

truth(s): biological, 53, 55; of biomedicine, 12, 22–23, 28, 45; claims of, 7; corporeal, 10, 50, 59; Foucault on, 131, 173n8; regime of, 21–22

Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, 30

Upchurch, Erin, 92

Urban Death Project, 146–47

Village to Village movement, 128

violence: anti-black, 48, 50–51, 64, 66–67, 182n10, 193n100, 226n11; anti-Jewish, 224n98; state, 152, 155. See also militancy/militarism; war on cancer

Vitas Hospice Services, 123

vulnerability, 8, 16, 227n16; of aging, 12, 127–28, 132–33; of blackness, 10, 50; bodily, 9, 20, 164; cancer and, 41, 43

Walcott, Rinaldo, 182n13

Waldby, Catherine, 14, 72, 83, 86–87, 142

Walther P-22 Hope edition handgun. See Hope handgun

Wann, Marilyn, 90

war on cancer, 36–37, 39, 40, 173n123, 177n64; hope as weapon in, 23, 24–31. See also breast cancer; cancer; chemotherapy; militancy/militarism

White Coats 4 Black Lives, die-ins, 67, 67–68, 194n106

Whiteis, David G., 189n66

whiteness/whites: affirming lives of, 47–48; fat activism of, 202n84; necroecologies of, 155, 156, 224n97; use of term, 169n29. See also blackness/blacks

Wilderson, Frank B., 182n10

Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute (University of Arkansas), 33

Women’s Field Army (WFA), 24, 174n16

World Bank, on crisis in aging, 97

World Health Organization (WHO), statistics on obesity, 73, 74, 194n3

Wynter, Sylvia, 226n11

Yates-Doerr, Emily, 92

Youngblood, Stephanie, 17

Zivi, Karen, 132

zoe, 15

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