Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics: Public and Individual Responses to the Threat to Life

Body and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 130-154

  Davis, Mark ^a   Flowers, Paul ^b   Lohm, Davina ^a   Waller, Emily ^c   Stephenson, Niamh ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

biopolitics; biovalue; bodily integrity; immunity; pandemics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994102578     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X14556155     Document Type: Article

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