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The Biosecurity Individual: A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity
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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 th... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
security; prevention; illness; medicine; biotechnology policy; cultural studies; biomedicine; biotechnology
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Biocultures; Biosecurity; Illness; Self-surveillance; America; Biopolitics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
293 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 43
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471456
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-7145-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed