biopoliticsn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈpɒlᵻtɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈpɑlətɪks/ With singular agreement. The interaction between politics and biology; spec. (a) politically motivated intervention in the growth or development of a population; (b) the use of biological science to explain human social or political behaviour; (c) environmental policy.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > branches of politics
public policec1450
state police1779
world-policy1848
world politics1857
geopolitics1901
Weltpolitik1903
biopolitics1927
psychopolitics1942
micropolitics1951
agro-politics1960
eco-politics1970
identity politics1973
gender politics1977
1927 S. Dragomir Ethnical Minorities Transylvania vi. 98 ‘Buletinul Eugenic si Biopolitic’ (‘Bulletin of Eugenics and Biopolitics’), monthly review, 1927 (first year).
1938 M. Roberts (title) Bio-politics.
1943 Chicago Sunday Tribune 28 Mar. 14/2 His idealism struck us as being a rather suspicious compound of Benthamite rationalism, behavioristic psychology, Malthusian biopolitics, and bluebird pantheism.
1976 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 4 139/2 The morale of the personnel was at a low point, as often occurs when bio-politics run rampant over dedicated wildlifers.
2004 P. A. Passavant Empire's New Clothes 8 Biopolitics concerns not a way of life..but biological life itself—our body as a species, biological processes, and the supervision of a ‘population’.
2008 M. Klawiter Biopolitics of Breast Cancer iii. 85 This chapter explores the biopolitics of breast cancer screening during the 1970s and 1980s.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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