ISBN:
9783825377830
Language:
English
Series Statement:
American Studies – A Monograph Series v.286
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kunow, Rüdiger Material bodies
DDC:
570
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
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Human body (Philosophy)
;
Human body in popular culture
;
National characteristics, American
;
Human Body
;
Social Conditions
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Popular Culture
;
Biology-Miscellanea
;
Electronic books
;
Human body in popular culture
;
Human body (Philosophy)
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
National characteristics, American
;
Social conditions
;
United States Social conditions
;
United States
;
United States
Abstract:
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Biologizing Culture / Culturing Biology -- Familiar Strangers, or, When Biology Meets Culture -- Disciplining Biology -- Biocultures: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis? -- Biology and the Research Imagination of American Cultural Studies -- Subjects in Biological Difference (Race and Gender) -- I. The Materialism of Biological Encounters -- 1. Embodied Encounters: Emergence and Emergency -- On the Materialism of Biological Encounters -- Biology and Human Mobility -- A Culpable Biography -- The "Yellow Peril" Medicalized: Chinese Immigrants and the Bubonic Plague of 1899/1900 -- Biological Transit across the American Hemisphere -- Yellow Fever and the Biopolitics of Location -- The White Man's "Biological Burden": Empire and Disease -- Cuba and the Reed Yellow Fever Commission -- The Philippines and the Specter of "Colonial Burnout'' -- 2. The Public Life of Public Diseases: Epidemics and the Mass Media -- Public Opinion and Public Diseases -- Disease Imaginaries and Narrative Form -- Dark Invaders": The Military Response Narrative -- Biomedical Jeremiads, or, How Have the Revelers Fallen -- From Scratch: Medical Sherlocks -- Imagined Immunities for Imagined Communities -- Conclusion: Biological Encounters and the Culture of Blame -- II. Not Normatively Human: Cultural Grammars and the Human Body -- 1. Corporeal Norms and the Experience of Inequality -- Norms as Imaginary Grammar of Cultural Oughtness -- The Normal and the Pathological: Canguilhem -- Normalizing Society: Foucault -- Communicative Normalization: Habermas -- When Life Goes Public: Biological Normophilia(s) -- Norms and the Institutionalization of Judgment -- At the Far End of the Normative Body: Late Life and Disability -- 2. "Age" as Cultural Norm and Form
Abstract:
The Age Chill Factor: Late Life as Bio-Cultural Pathology -- Normal Not to Be Normal: Gerontology and Age Studies -- New Age"? Late Life and the Promises of Molecular Biology -- Apocalyptic Embodiment: The Civic Identity of Late Life -- Where "Age" Is: Cultural Topographies of Late Life -- Age": Embodied Selfhood or Cultural Brand Name? -- 3. Exception Incorporated: Disability as Inscription of Cultural Otherness -- Oppositional Bodies, or, Disability's Challenge to Able-Bodied Normativity -- The Hero's Two Bodies: Disabled Veterans -- Left Behind: Disability in Veteran (Auto)Biographies -- A Culture of Hope"? Disability as Media Format -- Zones of Vulnerability: Disability and Environmental Exposure -- Spectral Disabilities, or, What You See Is What you (Don't) Get -- Markers of (Un)Certainty: "Age," "Disability" and Communicative Interaction -- III. Corporeal Semiotics: The Body of the Text / the Text of the Body -- 1. Textualizing Lifeâan Incomplete Project -- Bodies in Emergence and Emergency -- National Intimacies: The "Politics of Life" and the Religious Right -- Re-Writing the Book of Life: Genomics -- Finding a Text for the Book of Life -- Biological Futures -- Parables of the Possible: Contours of an Enhanced Life -- We the People, in Order to Have More Perfect Bodies: Biotechnology and Neoliberal Governance -- 2. Representations and the Traces of Suffering -- Putting It in Words, or, Another Distrust in the Signifier -- Emphatic Embodiment -- Private Practice: Pain as Inner Experience -- The We of Pain -- Pain as Relationship and Relation -- 3. The Silent Killer: Cancer(s) -- Stories We Die By: Cancers as Story Generators -- Somatics, Semantics and the Allegory of Unregulated Growth -- When the Flesh Becomes Word, or, The SemioticModel of Human Embodiment -- InConclusive: Human Biology and the Work of Cultural Critique
Abstract:
Biology, American Studies and Cultural Critique -- Figures of the Collective: Human Biology as Cultural Idiom and Issue -- References -- Backcover
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