The Biosecurity Individual A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity
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 th...
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
2023
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Series: | American Culture Studies
43 |
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Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (294 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783839471456 9783837671452 |
Access: | Open Access |