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Immunitary Life: A Biopolitics of Immunity de Nik Brown

Immunitary Life: A Biopolitics of Immunity

Autor Nik Brown
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 oct 2018
This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. It argues that taking an ‘immunitary perspective’ is necessary if we are to better appreciate the body as a site of politics in the contemporary age. It explores the dynamic tensions between community and immunity, belonging and fragmentation, the social and the individual. It creates a dialogue between the social sciences, humanities and biopolitical philosophy around immunity. 

Immunitary Life empirically situates immunitary politics in real-world debates. This includes blood donation and evolving notions of embodied intimacy in the worlds of transplantation. It examines changing ideas about infectivity, bugs, and the emergence of ‘resistance’ in antibiotics. The politics of vaccination offers a classic context for thinking about the ever changing relationships between the communal and the individual. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarship in the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137552464
ISBN-10: 1137552468
Pagini: 255
Ilustrații: VII, 255 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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’

Notă biografică

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.

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This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. It argues that taking an ‘immunitary perspective’ is necessary if we are to better appreciate the body as a site of politics in the contemporary age. It explores the dynamic tensions between community and immunity, belonging and fragmentation, the social and the individual. It creates a dialogue between the social sciences, humanities and biopolitical philosophy around immunity. 

Immunitary Life empirically situates immunitary politics in real-world debates. This includes blood donation and evolving notions of embodied intimacy in the worlds of transplantation. It examines changing ideas about infectivity, bugs, and the emergence of ‘resistance’ in antibiotics. The politics of vaccination offers a classic context for thinking about the ever changing relationships between the communal and the individual. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarship in the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.

Caracteristici

Provides a rare interdisciplinary perspective on immunity, centred around the idea of ‘immunitary life’
Situates empirically discussions about community and immunity in real-world debates on medical technological developments
Offers new insights into discussions on blood, transplantation, vaccination and anti-microbial resistance.