The Biosecurity Individual: A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity

Frederike Offizier

doi:10.14361/9783839471456

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-7145-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-7145-6
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: American Culture Studies
Volume: 43
Language: English
Pages: 294
Product type: Book Titles

FrontmatterPages 1 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
ContentsPages 7 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
AcknowledgementsPages 9 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
Introduction: Health, Security, and IdentityPages 11 - 20 Download chapter (PDF)
IntroductionPages 21 - 24 Download chapter (PDF)
1. "We hold these truths to be self-evident": Performativity and Security in the U.S. American Cultural ArchivePages 25 - 38 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Science as the Arbiter of Security: The Rise of Prevention and Pre-emptionPages 39 - 66 Download chapter (PDF)
3. Reading the Signs: The Biosecurity Individual, Biomedicalization, and Biomedical SalvationPages 67 - 78 Download chapter (PDF)
4. The Biosecurity Individual and the Drama of Biosecurity: Performance, Performativity, and AffectPages 79 - 96 Download chapter (PDF)
IntroductionPages 97 - 102 Download chapter (PDF)
5. Writing Life – Writing Security: Alice Wexler''s Mapping Faith and the Emerging Biosecurity IndividualPages 103 - 138 Download chapter (PDF)
6. Performing Futures: Breast Cancer, Pre-emption, and the Biosecurity IndividualPages 139 - 174 Download chapter (PDF)
7. Escaping Biosecurity? The Question of Security in Dying and the Possibility of Doing it OtherwisePages 175 - 206 Download chapter (PDF)
8. Failed Futures: Biomedical Security and the Biosecurity Individual in FictionPages 207 - 240 Download chapter (PDF)
"Know Thyself": Self-Surveillance and Securing the Self in an Age of Digital BiocapitalismPages 241 - 256 Download chapter (PDF)
Works CitedPages 257 - 294 Download chapter (PDF)