Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS

by Emily Martin

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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.
  • ISBN10 0807046272
  • ISBN13 9780807046272
  • Publish Date 30 October 1995 (first published 1 June 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 December 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press