LEADER 00000cam a2200781Ii 4500 001 on1024271956 003 OCoLC 005 20201002142711.2 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 180224s2018 gw ob 000 0 eng d 019 1023858702 020 3825377830|q(electronic book) 020 9783825377830|q(electronic book) 020 |z9783825368609|q(hardcover) 020 |z3825368602|q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)1024271956|z(OCoLC)1023858702 040 EBLCP|beng|erda|epn|cEBLCP|dYDX|dMERUC|dIDB|dYDX|dCUS |dOCLCF|dINT|dCEF|dOCLCQ|dOSU|dOCLCO|dOCLCA|dOCLCQ|dWAU |dOCLCQ|dN$T 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 HM636|b.K86 2018 050 4 QH349|b.K866 2018 082 04 306.4|223 082 04 570|223 090 HM636|b.K86 2018 090 QH349|b.K866 2018 100 1 Kunow, Rüdiger,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no96020411|eauthor. 245 10 Material bodies :|bbiology and culture in the United States /|cRüdiger Kunow. 264 1 Heidelberg :|bUniversitätsverlag Winter,|c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 1 online resource (xix, 483 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 American studies - a monograph series ;|vvolume 286 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-483). 505 0 Preface; Introduction: Biologizing Culture / Culturing Biology; Familiar Strangers, or, When Biology Meets Culture; Disciplining Biology; Biocultures: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis?; Biology and the Research Imagination of American Cultural Studies; Subjects in Biological Difference (Race and Gender); I. The Materialism of Biological Encounters; 1. Embodied Encounters: Emergence and Emergency; On the Materialism of Biological Encounters; Biology and Human Mobility; A Culpable Biography. 505 8 The "Yellow Peril" Medicalized: Chinese Immigrants and the Bubonic Plague of 1899/1900Biological Transit across the American Hemisphere; Yellow Fever and the Biopolitics of Location; The White Man's "Biological Burden": Empire and Disease; Cuba and the Reed Yellow Fever Commission; The Philippines and the Specter of "Colonial Burnout''; 2. The Public Life of Public Diseases: Epidemics and the Mass Media; Public Opinion and Public Diseases; Disease Imaginaries and Narrative Form; Dark Invaders": The Military Response Narrative; Biomedical Jeremiads, or, How Have the Revelers Fallen. 505 8 From Scratch: Medical SherlocksImagined Immunities for Imagined Communities; Conclusion: Biological Encounters and the Culture of Blame; II. Not Normatively Human: Cultural Grammars and the Human Body; 1. Corporeal Norms and the Experience of Inequality; Norms as Imaginary Grammar of Cultural Oughtness; The Normal and the Pathological: Canguilhem; Normalizing Society: Foucault; Communicative Normalization: Habermas; When Life Goes Public: Biological Normophilia(s); Norms and the Institutionalization of Judgment; At the Far End of the Normative Body: Late Life and Disability. 505 8 2. "Age" as Cultural Norm and FormThe Age Chill Factor: Late Life as Bio-Cultural Pathology; Normal Not to Be Normal: Gerontology and Age Studies; New Age"? Late Life and the Promises of Molecular Biology; Apocalyptic Embodiment: The Civic Identity of Late Life; Where "Age" Is: Cultural Topographies of Late Life; Age": Embodied Selfhood or Cultural Brand Name?; 3. Exception Incorporated: Disability as Inscription of Cultural Otherness; Oppositional Bodies, or, Disability's Challenge to Able-Bodied Normativity; The Hero's Two Bodies: Disabled Veterans. 505 8 Left Behind: Disability in Veteran (Auto)BiographiesA Culture of Hope"? Disability as Media Format; Zones of Vulnerability: Disability and Environmental Exposure; Spectral Disabilities, or, What You See Is What you (Don't) Get; Markers of (Un)Certainty: "Age," "Disability" and Communicative Interaction; III. Corporeal Semiotics: The Body of the Text / the Text of the Body; 1. Textualizing Life--an Incomplete Project; Bodies in Emergence and Emergency; National Intimacies: The "Politics of Life" and the Religious Right; Re-Writing the Book of Life: Genomics. 505 8 Finding a Text for the Book of Life; Biological Futures; Parables of the Possible: Contours of an Enhanced Life; We the People, in Order to Have More Perfect Bodies: Biotechnology and Neoliberal Governance; 2. Representations and the Traces of Suffering; Putting It in Words, or, Another Distrust in the Signifier; Emphatic Embodiment; Private Practice; Pain as Inner Experience; The We of Pain; Pain as Relationship and Relation; 3. 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