A body worth defending
Subtitle: immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body
By: Ed Cohen.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822345183; 9780822345350
Subjects: Immunity; Human body; Biopolitics; Medicine -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living before and beyond the law, or a reasonable organism defends itself; title: A body worth having, or a system of natural governance; title: A policy called milieu, or the human organism's vital space; title: Incorporating immunity, or the defensive poetics of modern medicine; title: Conclusion : immune communities, common immunities.