APLS owns and publishes an academic peer-reviewed journal called Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS).
The essential difference here is that the early modern application of biological ideas to politics revolved around the idea that society was a ‘social organism’, whereas the subject this article describes expressly sets out to separate the essential logic of the association of biology to human social life, from this earlier model.
Some discussion bearing on this point may be found in Biology and Politics : Recent Explorations by Albert Somit, 1976, which is a collection of essays, one brief essay by William Mackenzie is Biopolitics : A Minority Viewpoint, in which he talks about the ‘founding father’ of Biopolitics as being Morley Roberts, because of his 1938 book of that name.
But Roberts was not using the term in its modern, politically sanitized sense, but in the context of society viewed as a true living being, a social organism.
[13] Important recent surveys of leading research in biopolitics have been published in the journals Political Psychology and Science.