Flexible BodiesEmily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in contexts from medicine to the corporate world, warning that we may be approaching a new form of social Darwinism. |
Contents
The Body at War Media Views of the Immune System | 49 |
Immunology on the Street How Nonscientists See the Immune System | 64 |
Fix My Head How Alternative Practitioners See the Immune System | 82 |
Immunophilosophy How Scientists See the Immune System | 91 |
CONFIGURATIONS OF HEALTHY BODIES | 113 |
Complex Systems | 115 |
System Breakdown Dying from Within | 127 |
Flexible Systems | 143 |
Educating and Training the Body Vaccines and Tests | 193 |
Educating and Training at Work | 207 |
POSTDARWINISM | 227 |
The Neighborhoods | 251 |
The People We Interviewed | 255 |
Questions for Neighborhood Interviews | 263 |
NOTES | 267 |
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