The Biosecurity Individual - A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity

Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.

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Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.

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Product details

• Authors: Frederike Offizier
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9783837671452
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7145-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 22 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: American Culture Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Medizin, allgemein, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Medicine, Medicine: general issues, Biopolitics, America, MEDICAL / Pharmacy, Security, Social interaction, Social & cultural history, Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / Research & Theory, MEDICAL / Medical History & Records, Political activism, General & world history, History of Medicine, prevention, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Social welfare & social services, Organizational theory & behaviour, Pharmacology, Impact of science & technology on society, Medical Sociology, Sociology and anthropology, Central government policies, Illness, Biocultures, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, Self-surveillance, biosecurity, Culture and institutions, The political process, Social problems and services, Social processes, Political science (Politics and government), Medicine and health, History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Pharmacology and therapeutics