Böcker av Nik Brown

This text is about what the future should or might look like and turns the analytical gaze towards the phenomenon of future orientation itself. The contributors examine how the future as a temporal abstraction is constructed and managed, by whom and under what conditions.

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far--reaching political, social and subjective questions.

This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. Immunitary Life is essential reading for contemporary scholarship in the sociology of the body and the political philosophy of biomedicine.