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A Body Worth Defending

Paperback • 2009 • English

A Body Worth Defending

By Ed Cohen

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About the book

Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years "immunity," a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. "Self-defense" also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first "natu...Show more

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9780822345350

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

A Body Worth Defending

Format

Paperback

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