Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.
| ISBN: | 9783837671452 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2024 |
| Author: | Frederike Offizier |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 294 pages |
| Series: | American Culture Studies |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Political science and theory Medicine: general issues |
Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies.
The Biosecurity Individual features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Political science and theory, Medicine: general issues
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The Biosecurity Individual was written by Frederike Offizier and published by Transcript an imprint of transcript
The Biosecurity Individual has 294 pages
Yes it is part of American Culture Studies series
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