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OverviewDiscoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frederike OffizierPublisher: Transcript Verlag Imprint: Transcript Verlag Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9783837671452ISBN 10: 3837671453 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 23 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationFrederike Offizier works as a lecturer and researcher in the American studies department at Universit�t Potsdam, where she also completed her PhD with the project �Help Yourself, So Help You Science�. Part of her research was conducted as a fulbright scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her MA thesis �DeComposing the Self� was awarded the Hans-J�rgen-Bachorski-Preis. Her research focuses on biocultural studies, affect theory, performance studies, ecocriticism, and disaster narratives. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |