02340nam 22005653 450 99657185520331620231214084507.03-8394-7145-110.1515/9783839471456(CKB)29276963700041(MiAaPQ)EBC7374642(Au-PeEL)EBL7374642(DE-B1597)672715(DE-B1597)9783839471456(EXLCZ)992927696370004120231214d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Biosecurity Individual A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity1st ed.Bielefeld :transcript,2023.©2023.1 online resource (295 pages)American Culture Studies9783837671452 Discoveries 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.American Culture StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CulturebisacshAmerica.Biopolitics.Biosecurity.Cultural Studies.Illness.Medicine.Prevention.Security.Self-surveillance.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.Offizier Frederike1461821Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburgfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996571855203316The Biosecurity Individual3670619UNISA