Immunitary Life

Provides a rare interdisciplinary perspective on immunity, centred around the idea of 'immunitary life'

Situates empirically discussions about community and immunity in real-world debates on medical technological developments

Offers new insights into discussions on blood, transplantation, vaccination and anti-microbial resistance.

Auteur
Nik Brown is Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He writes extensively on key debates in the politics of biomedicine and the sociology of the body.

Contenu
Chapter One: Immunitary Life: Biomedicine, Technology and the Body.- Chapter Two: Blood Ties and the Immunitary Bioeconomy.- Chapter Three: Reconfiguring Species for Immunitary Hybridity.- Chapter Four: Biotic Politics: Immunitary Imaginaries in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).- Chapter Five: Spherologies of Immunisation.- Chapter Six: Co/Immunity and the Biopolitics of Purity - 'Purity Is Danger'.