Flexible Bodies

Name: Flexible Bodies
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ISBN: 9780807046272

ISBN-10: 0807046272

ISBN-13: 9780807046272

Edition: 1995

Authors: Emily Martin

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Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on "flexibility" in contexts from medicine to the corporate world, warning that we may be approaching a new form of social Darwinism.

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 10/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Problems and Methods



Historical Overview



Visions of the Immune System



The Body at War: Media Views of the Immune System



Immunology on the Street: How Nonscientists See the Immune System



"Fix My Head": How Alternative Practitioners See the Immune System



Immunophilosophy: How Scientists See the Immune System



Configurations of Healthy Bodies



Complex Systems



System Breakdown: "Dying from Within"



Flexible Systems



Practicums



Interpreting Electron Micrographs



Saturation



Educating and Training the Body: Vaccines and Tests



Educating and Training at Work



Post-Darwinism


Appendix 1 The Neighborhoods


Appendix 2 The People We Interviewed


Appendix 3 Questions for Neighborhood Interviews


Notes


References


Index