Immunitary Life A Biopolitics of Immunity /

• Main Author: Brown, Nik (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medical ethics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

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 imm...

Table of Contents:

• 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'.