Selling Immunity: Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine studies the ways immunity shapes life. Through its up-to-date discussion of immunity cultures, alongside detailed real-world examples, the book demonstrates how immunity is enmeshed in concepts of possessive individualism, self-defence and health consumerism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Framing immunity
2. What can immunity do?
3. Immunological narratives
4. The popularisation of immunology
5. Immunity and digital media
6. Immune selves
7. Fragile immunitary economies
8. Immunity and its discontents