Overview
- Provides a rare interdisciplinary perspective on immunity, centred around the idea of ‘immunitary life’
- Situates empirically discussions about community and immunity in real-world debates on medical technological developments
- Offers new insights into discussions on blood, transplantation, vaccination and anti-microbial resistance.
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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 immunity, belonging and fragmentation, the social and the individual. It creates a dialogue between the social sciences, humanities and biopolitical philosophy around immunity.
Immunitary Life empirically situates immunitary politics in real-world debates. This includes blood donation and evolving notions of embodied intimacy in the worlds of transplantation. It examines changing ideas about infectivity, bugs, and the emergence of ‘resistance’ in antibiotics. The politics of vaccination offers a classic context for thinking about the ever changing relationships between the communal and the individual. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarshipin the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.
Immunitary Life empirically situates immunitary politics in real-world debates. This includes blood donation and evolving notions of embodied intimacy in the worlds of transplantation. It examines changing ideas about infectivity, bugs, and the emergence of ‘resistance’ in antibiotics. The politics of vaccination offers a classic context for thinking about the ever changing relationships between the communal and the individual. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarshipin the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nik Brown is Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He writes extensively on key debates in the politics of biomedicine and the sociology of the body.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immunitary Life
Book Subtitle: A Biopolitics of Immunity
Authors: Nik Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55247-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55246-4Published: 12 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55247-1Published: 29 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 255
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics