1st Edition
Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine
By Mark Davis
Copyright 2022
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine provides a groundbreaking study of the ways in which 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.
The book explores the... Read more
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
Biography
Mark Davis is an Associate Professor at the Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance and School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. He writes on the social responses to pandemics and superbugs with particular emphasis on the lived experiences of affected communities and the work of healthcare practitioners and biomedical scientists.
