ABSTRACT
Biopolitics is an amorphous area of inquiry, as is the case for most new subdisciplines in political science. The subfield "emerged" a little over a decade ago and much of the early work consisted of exhortatory appeals designed to demonstrate that the concepts, theories, and research tools of the life sciences were or could be made relevant to political science generally or political philosophy specifically. Theoretically, psychophysiological and other biological explanations of human behavior can be viewed as one significant set of causal influences, along with other clusters of determinants. Biopolitically-oriented theories of political behavior have been subjected to a barrage of epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and ideological criticisms. Biopolimetries subsumes all of the discernible and measurable manifestations of activity within the human organism conceived as an information processing and decision-making system.
