A Body Worth Defending
Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
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Word Count
93,000 words, Guess
Page Count
372 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebodyworthdefendi0000cohe
- ISBN-100822345188
- ISBN-139780822345183
- ISBN-139780822345350
- ISBN-100822345358
and 6 more
- WikidataQ57233337
- Library of Congress Control Number2009022399
- OCLC Control Number319499249
- Better World Books9780822345350
- Better World Books9780822345183
- Open LibraryOL24460688M
Classifications
- DDC616.07/9
- LCCQR185.2 .C64 2009
- LCCQR185.2.C64 2009
Description
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, 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.
Other Editions
- A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
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