Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS

by Emily Martin

Book Overview

Emily 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807046264
• ISBN13: 9780807046265
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"