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A Body Worth Defending : Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body /
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years "immunity," a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively polit...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Opening Up a Few Concepts: Introductory Ruminations
- 1. Living Before and Beyond the Law, or A Reasonable Organism Defends Itself
- 2. A Body Worth Having, or A System of Natural Governance
- 3. A Policy called Milieu, or The Human Organism's Vital Space
- 4. Incorporating Immunity, or The Defensive Poetics of Modern Medicine
- Conclusion: Immune Communities, Common Immunities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index