|
|
Product Description
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.Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24)
- Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
- Race: Are We So Different?
- Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)
- The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
- The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
- Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists
*If this is not the "Flexible Bodies" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link








