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Flexible Bodies : Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS
author
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Martin, Emily.
publisher
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Beacon Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807046272
print isbn13
:
9780807046272
ebook isbn13
:
9780807046166
language
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English
subject
Medical anthropology--United States, Immunity--Social aspects, Immune system--Social aspects, Americans--Health and hygiene.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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GN296.5M37 1994eb
ddc
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306.4/61
subject
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Medical anthropology--United States, Immunity--Social aspects, Immune system--Social aspects, Americans--Health and hygiene.
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Flexible Bodies
Tracking Immunity in American Culturefrom the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS
Emily Martin
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1994 by Emily Martin All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Martin, Emily. Flexible bodies: tracking immunity in American culture from the days of polio to the age of AIDS / Emily Martin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8070-4626-4 (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-4627-2 (paper) 1. Medical anthropologyUnited States. 2. ImmunitySocial aspects. 3. Immune systemSocial aspects. 4. AmericansHealth and hygiene. I. Title. GN296.5.U6M37 1994 306.4'61dc20 93-39065
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Text design by Ruth Kolbert
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For Richard
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Indeed, people don't just become ill out of the blue. For the whole of a body to be affected, its equilibrium must have already been disrupted. That's true for all illnesses. It's painfully obvious for illnesses said to be of the immune system. But all illnesses are, in fact, since being ill comes down to being unable to distance oneself from pathogenic agents. So why do we have this proliferation of terminal illnesses at a period of civilization as developed as ours? My hypothesis is that it's this very civilization that continuously submits our minds and bodies to stresses and strains and thus gradually destroys our immune systems. I'm surprised doctors aren't saying this. Luce Irigaray, Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference
There may be something of fundamental significance in the fact that a well-known credit card was advertised as "your flexible friend." Roger Pain, "Protein Dynamics: A Case of a Flexible Friend"
Tertio agemus de corporibus flexibilibus. Leonhard Euler, Mechanica
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CONTENTS
Illustrations
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xix
Part One Introduction: Problems and Methods
1
Part Two Historical Overview
21
Part Three Visions of the Immune System
45
1 The Body at War: Media Views of the Immune System
49
2 Immunology on the Street: How Nonscientists See the Immune System
64
3 "Fix My Head": How Alternative Practitioners See the Immune System
82
4 Immunophilosophy: How Scientists See the Immune System
91
Part Four Configurations of Healthy Bodies
113
5 Complex Systems
115
6 System Breakdown: "Dying from within"
127
7 Flexible Systems
143
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Part Five Practicums
161
8 Interpreting Electron Micrographs
167
9 Saturation
183
10 Educating and Training the Body: Vaccines and Tests
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