Author: Ed Cohen
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0822345358
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. Medical books A Body Worth Defending. 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 political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first “natural right.” In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense Medical books A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, And The Apotheosis Of The Mod. Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Traces immunity s migration from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, this book illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies which percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental,
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 political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first “natural right.” In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense.” In A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen reveals the unacknowledged political, economic, and philosophical assumptions about the human body that biomedicine incorporates when it recruits immunity to safeguard the vulnerable living organism.
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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Traces immunity s migration from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, this book illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies which percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental,
author ed cohen format hardback language english publication year 25 01 2010 subject medicine subject 2 medicine general title a body worth defending immunity biopolitics and the apotheosis of the modern body author cohen ed publisher duke univ pr publication date nov 01 2009 pages 536 binding hardcover dimensions 4 90 wx 9 40 hx 1 20 d isbn 0822345188 subject science history description a science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity duke univ pr
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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 political and juridical ends. "Self-defense" also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first "natural right." In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creatin
Medical Book A Body Worth Defending
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 political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first “natural right.” In the 1880s and 1890s, biomedicine fuses these two political precepts into one, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense.” In A Body Worth Defending, Ed Cohen reveals the unacknowledged political, economic, and philosophical assumptions about the human body that biomedicine incorporates when it recruits immunity to safeguard the vulnerable living organism.
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s writings about biopolitics and biopower, Cohen traces the migration of immunity from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, he illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies that percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth. He shows that by the late nineteenth century, “the body” literally incarnates modern notions of personhood. In this lively cultural rumination, Cohen argues that by embracing the idea of immunity-as-defense so exclusively, biomedicine naturalizes the individual as the privileged focus for identifying and treating illness, thereby devaluing or obscuring approaches to healing situated within communities or collectives.
