Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine - Paperback

by Mark Davis (Author)

Selling Immunity: Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine studies the ways immunity shapes life. Through its up-to-date discussion of immunity cultures, alongside detailed real-world examples, the book demonstrates how immunity is enmeshed in concepts of possessive individualism, self-defence and health consumerism.

Author Biography

Mark Davis is an Associate Professor at the Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance and School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. He writes on the social responses to pandemics and superbugs with particular emphasis on the lived experiences of affected communities and the work of healthcare practitioners and biomedical scientists.