Thesis ID: CBB818176057

Vital Differences Indeterminacy & the Biomedical Body (2017)

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In this dissertation, I propose an immuno-environmental model of biomedical phenomena in which human and nonhuman entities participate actively in vital material-semiotic assemblages with discursive and material capacity in which indeterminacy and uncertainty are always at work. In order to demonstrate my argument, I examine a variety of documents as sociocultural archives of expert and non-expert immunological knowledge practices, including scientific articles and medical studies, fictional and non-fictional accounts, social media, blogs and news reports. My project is therefore invested both in the ontological and in the epistemological foundations of immunological knowledge, which I contend collapse the boundaries between the self-contained, autonomous (human) subject and its physical and social surroundings. I use case studies of two chronic health conditions to examine in detail how immunological assemblages are enacted and materialized: celiac disease, an autoimmune gastrointestinal disorder, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, an idiopathic environmental syndrome.

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Authors & Contributors
Greene, Molly Anderson
Hyrkäs, Eve-Riina
Jules Alexander Skotnes-Brown
M. S. Valiathan
Landon Marc McBrayer
Waldegg, Guillermina
Concepts
Philosophy
Ontology
Epistemology
Human body
Biomedicine
Pain
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
Medieval
Places
United States
India
Finland
Czech Republic
Institutions
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
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