A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen

A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body

Ed Cohen

384 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years “immunity,” a legal concept invented in an...

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