The politics of immunity : security and the policing of bodies / Mark Neocleous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neocleous, Mark, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Political aspects.

Public health.

Immunity--Social aspects.

Immunity.

Public Health.

public health.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health.

Physical Description:

viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Verso Books, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. War Power, Police Power, Cell Power

`Imagine That Your Body Is a Sovereign Nation'

`A Natural Policing Thing That Happens in the Body'

`It Is to This Resistance That We Give the Name of Immunity'

Life and Death in a Cell

2. Imagining an Immune Self

The Mystique of the Self

From Self-Defence

To Self-Destruction

3. Imagining an Immune System: Politics of Systems I

The Mystique of the System

Bodies as Systems

The Mystique of the Immune Social System

4. Order, Energy, Entropy, Bodies: Politics of Systems II

Invisible Hands, Invisible Systems, Invisible Governors

`Shipwrecked Passengers on a Doomed Planet'

Demons and Parasites: Towards a Politics of the Nervous State

5. Nervous States: Politics of Systems III

Nervous System, Nervous Self

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness; or, Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

Nervous State, Nervous Terror

6. Immunity's Fiction

The Civilian: Born to Die

The State: Born to Kill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

183976483X

9781839764837

OCLC:

1252050356