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Monica J Casper

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Monica J. Casper, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University. Her latest book, BABYLOST: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. Casper is founding co-editor of the NYU Press book series “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century” and the University of Arizona book series “The Feminist Wire Books.” She is also a creative writer.

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	Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Moore, Monica J Casper (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2012 by Jessica Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dawn Ius (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam Byatt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life by Monica J Casper (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric H.R. Wertheimer (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (Biopolitics, 2) by Monica J Casper (Goodreads Author), Lisa Jean Moore (Goodreads Author) 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Synthetic Planet 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge by Monica J Casper (Goodreads Author), Paisley Currah (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars