Body Worth Defending - Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body

Informationen zum Autor Ed Cohen Klappentext A science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity Zusammenfassung A science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Opening Up a Few Concepts: Introductory Ruminations 1 1. Living Before and Beyond the Law, or A Reasonable Organism Defends Itself 32 2. A Body Worth Having, or A System of Natural Governance 68 3. A Policy called Milieu, or The Human Organism's Vital Space 130 4. Incorporating Immunity, or The Defensive Poetics of Modern Medicine 206 Conclusion: Immune Communities, Common Immunities 269 Notes 283 Bibliography 323 Index 359

Product details

• Authors: Ed Cohen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2009
• EAN: 9780822345350
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4535-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Medizin, allgemein