A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen

A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen

Author:Ed Cohen [Cohen, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: book, ebook
ISBN: 9780822345183
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-08-17T05:00:00+00:00


Paris malade, then, signaled bourgeois Parisians’ understanding that a complete and literal fusion of the diseased urban and human bodies had occurred.… Paris suffered from a kind of internal imbalance rather than from externally imposed conditions of geography and climate; the cily was plagued by forces of its own making. Implicit in this view was a moral judgment: not only was the capital becoming sick, but this sickness was part of the very fabric of urban existence and resulted from human activily rather than mysterious natural forces.123



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