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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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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 scholarship in the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK
Nik Brown
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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