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A body worth defending : immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body / Ed Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Ed, 1958-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immunity.
- Human body.
- Biopolitics.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity
- Contents:
- Living before and beyond the law, or a reasonable organism defends itself
- A body worth having, or a system of natural governance
- A policy called milieu, or the human organism's vital space
- Incorporating immunity, or the defensive poetics of modern medicine
- Conclusion : immune communities, common immunities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035936
- 9781283035934
- 1283035936
- 9780822391111
- 0822391112
- OCLC:
- 462914565
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