ISBN:
9783837671452
,
3837671453
Language:
English
Pages:
294 Seiten
,
24 cm x 15.5 cm, 513 g
Edition:
1. Auflage
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies volume 43
Series Statement:
American culture studies
Uniform Title:
Help yourself, so help you science
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Offizier, Frederike The Biosecurity Individual
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Offizier, Frederike The Biosecurity Individual
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2021
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
;
Biomedizin
;
Biotechnologie
;
Prävention
;
Gesundheit
;
Sicherheit
;
Identität
;
Soziokultureller Wandel
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: Help yourself, so help you science : security, biology, and identity construction
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