num_pages: 352
description: Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in contexts from medicine to the corporate world, warning that we may be approaching a new form of social Darwinism.
language: English
title: Flexible Bodies
titlecomplete: Flexible Bodies
genres: History Of Medicine, Medical, History, Feminism, Ethnography, Anthropology, Science, Health, College, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Beacon Press