Ed Cohen

A Body Worth Defending

Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345350
• ISBN-10: 0822345358
• Artikelnr.: 26499025

Autorenporträt

Ed Cohen

Inhaltsangabe

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