Immunitary Life

A Biopolitics of Immunity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarshipin the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:255
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137552464

Utforska kategorier

Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Nik Brown is Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He writes extensively on key debates in the politics of biomedicine and the sociology of the body.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Immunitary Life: Biomedicine, Technology and the Body.- Chapter Two: Blood Ties and the Immunitary Bioeconomy.- Chapter Three: Reconfiguring Species for Immunitary Hybridity.- Chapter Four: Biotic Politics: Immunitary Imaginaries in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).- Chapter Five: Spherologies of Immunisation.- Chapter Six: Co/Immunity and the Biopolitics of Purity - ‘Purity Is Danger’.