A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Opening Up a Few Concepts Introductory Ruminations

The Vital Matter of Defense The “Nature” of the “Modern Body” A Short History of BiopoLitics Genealogical Rumination, or Foucault in Slow Motion To Defend or Not to Defend? That Is the Question

1. Living Before and Beyond the Law, or A Reasonable Organism Defends Itself

Figures of Science Remetaphorizing Immunity Creatures of the Law On the Natural Properties of the Law and the Legal Properties of Nature The Legal Defense of Property The Fortress Body

2. A Body Worth Having, or A System of Natural Governance

3. A Policy Called Milieu, or The Human Organism’s Vital Space

4. Incorporating Immunity, or The Defensive Poetics of Modern Medicine

Conclusion Immune Communities, Common Immunities Notes

Introductory Ruminations 1. Living Before and Beyond the Law 2. A Body Worth Having 3. A Policy Called Milieu 4. Incorporating Immunity Conclusion

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