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

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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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Main Author: Offizier, Frederike (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
Series:American Culture Studies 43
Subjects:
Cultural studies
Political science & theory
Medicine: general issues
Biocultures
Biosecurity
Prevention
Security
Illness
Self-surveillance
America
Biopolitics
Medicine
Cultural Studies
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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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (294 p.)
ISBN:9783839471456
9783837671452
Access:Open Access

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