In the name of humanity : the government of threat and care / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin, eds. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010. - viii, 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: government and humanity / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Tic ktin -- When humanity sits in judgment : crimes against humanity and th e conundrum of race and ethnicity at the international criminal tribuna l for Rwanda / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Children, humanity, and the infa ntilization of peace / Liisa Malkki -- Narrative, humanity, and patrimo ny in an equatorial African forest / Rebecca Hardin -- Inhumanitas : po litical speciation, animality, natality, defacement / Allen Feldman -- Medication is me now? : human values and political life in the wake of global AIDS treatment / JoƤao Biehl -- Environment, community, governme nt / Arun Agrawal -- The mortality effect : counting the dead in the ca ncer trial / S. Lochlann Jain -- Inequality of lives, hierarchies of hu manity : moral commitments and ethical dilemmas of humanitarianism / Di dier Fassin -- The politics of experimentality / Adriana Petryna -- Ste alth nature : biomimesis and the weaponization of life / Charles Zerner .

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Humanity.
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