
Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues. As a medical term, autoimmunity is today used to account for any instance in which the body fails to recognise its own constituents as 'self', an error that...

This volume brings together original essays that reflect and engage with different disciplinary approaches to autoimmunity in the theoretical, medical or posthumanities, social and political theory and critical science studies. It aims to provide a topical intervention within...