The Biosecurity Individual A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity

• Autore principale: Offizier, Frederike (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Serie: American Culture Studies
• Soggetti: Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Medicine: general issues; Biocultures; Biosecurity; Prevention; Security; Illness; Self-surveillance; America; Biopolitics; Medicine; Cultural Studies
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Riassunto

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.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (294 p.)

ISBN

9783839471456
9783837671452

Accesso

Open Access