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10%OFFEd Cohen - A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body - 9780822345350 - V9780822345350
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A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body

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Description for A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body Paperback. A science studies text that reveals the legal and political origins of the concept of immunity. Num Pages: 384 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: MB; MJCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
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, creating a new vital function, “immunity-as-defense.” In A Body Worth Defending, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822345350
SKU
V9780822345350
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About Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen teaches cultural studies and directs the doctoral program in women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University.

Reviews for A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
“Ed Cohen offers a provocative and demanding account of what he calls the ‘back story’ of the apotheosis of the modern body through the thought provoking trajectory of immunity as an unquestioned metaphor that unreflectively incorporates juridico-political assumptions. . . . A Body Worth Defending has much to offer the diligent reader, who is interested in tracing modernity’s genealogy and ... Read more

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