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Inspired by Michel Foucault’s writings about biopolitics and biopower, Cohen traces the migration of immunity from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, he illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies that percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth. He shows that by the late nineteenth century, “the body” literally incarnates modern notions of personhood. In this lively cultural rumination, Cohen argues that by embracing the idea of immunity-as-defense so exclusively, biomedicine naturalizes the individual as the privileged focus for identifying and treating illness, thereby devaluing or obscuring approaches to healing situated within communities or collectives.
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s writings about biopolitics and biopower, Cohen traces the migration of immunity from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, he illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies that percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth. He shows that by the late nineteenth century, “the body” literally incarnates modern notions of personhood. In this lively cultural rumination, Cohen argues that by embracing the idea of immunity-as-defense so exclusively, biomedicine naturalizes the individual as the privileged focus for identifying and treating illness, thereby devaluing or obscuring approaches to healing situated within communities or collectives.
Ed Cohen teaches cultural studies and directs the doctoral program in women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University.
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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780822345350 |
| ISBN-10: | 0822345358 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Cohen, Ed |
| Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Maße: | 228 x 146 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ed Cohen |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.10.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,515 kg |
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