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The Biosecurity Individual: A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity
[Dissertation]
Abstract 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 th... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Sicherheit; Prävention; Krankheit; Medizin; Biopolitik; Kulturwissenschaft; Biomedizin; Biotechnik
Klassifikation
sonstige Geisteswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Biocultures; Biosecurity; Illness; Self-surveillance; America; Biopolitics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
293 S.
Schriftenreihe
American Culture Studies, 43
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471456
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-7145-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0