An anthropologist explores changing American views on immunity and flexibility since the 1940s, warning of a new social Darwinism.
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An anthropologist explores changing American views on immunity and flexibility since the 1940s, warning of a new social Darwinism.
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Anthropologist Emily Martin has become one of America's most admired cultural critics, known for her creative, interdisciplinary work on the social context of science. Her award-winning book The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction revolutionized our thinking about women's reproductive lives, and her research on gender stereotypes that shape medical language has been widely influential.In Flexible Bodies, Martin turns to the human immune system, tracing the notion of immunity...
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