1701046547     

Material Bodies : Biology and Culture in the United States

Kunow, Rüdiger [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Kunow, Rüdiger : Material bodies. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-3-8253-7783-0

978-3-8253-6860-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 3-8253-6860-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-8253-6860-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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HR 1704  | HR 1121      Ähnliche Literatur

HM636 ; QH349

570 ; 306.4

LOC-SH: Human body -- Social aspects -- United States ; Human body (Philosophy) ; Human body in popular culture ; National characteristics, American ; United States -- Social conditions

MeSH: Human Body ; Social Conditions ; Popular Culture ; United States

Biology-Miscellanea ; Electronic books ; United States ; Human body in popular culture ; Human body (Philosophy) ; Human body ; Social aspects ; National characteristics, American ; Social conditions

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

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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 Life—an 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