Biopolitics and bare life: Does the impaired body provide contemporary examples of homo sacer?

Arguing about Disability: Philosophical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 203-217

  Reeve, Donna ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891575     Document Type: Chapter

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