Material bodies : biology and culture in the United States / Rüdiger Kunow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-483).

Preface; Introduction: Biologizing Culture / Culturing Biology; Familiar Strangers, or, When Biology Meets Culture; Disciplining Biology; Biocultures: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis?; Biology and the Research Imagination of American Cultural Studies; Subjects in Biological Difference (Race and Gender); I. The Materialism of Biological Encounters; 1. Embodied Encounters: Emergence and Emergency; On the Materialism of Biological Encounters; Biology and Human Mobility; A Culpable Biography.

The "Yellow Peril" Medicalized: Chinese Immigrants and the Bubonic Plague of 1899/1900Biological Transit across the American Hemisphere; Yellow Fever and the Biopolitics of Location; The White Man's "Biological Burden": Empire and Disease; Cuba and the Reed Yellow Fever Commission; The Philippines and the Specter of "Colonial Burnout''; 2. The Public Life of Public Diseases: Epidemics and the Mass Media; Public Opinion and Public Diseases; Disease Imaginaries and Narrative Form; Dark Invaders": The Military Response Narrative; Biomedical Jeremiads, or, How Have the Revelers Fallen.

From Scratch: Medical SherlocksImagined Immunities for Imagined Communities; Conclusion: Biological Encounters and the Culture of Blame; II. Not Normatively Human: Cultural Grammars and the Human Body; 1. Corporeal Norms and the Experience of Inequality; Norms as Imaginary Grammar of Cultural Oughtness; The Normal and the Pathological: Canguilhem; Normalizing Society: Foucault; Communicative Normalization: Habermas; When Life Goes Public: Biological Normophilia(s); Norms and the Institutionalization of Judgment; At the Far End of the Normative Body: Late Life and Disability.

2. "Age" as Cultural Norm and FormThe Age Chill Factor: Late Life as Bio-Cultural Pathology; Normal Not to Be Normal: Gerontology and Age Studies; New Age"? Late Life and the Promises of Molecular Biology; Apocalyptic Embodiment: The Civic Identity of Late Life; Where "Age" Is: Cultural Topographies of Late Life; Age": Embodied Selfhood or Cultural Brand Name?; 3. Exception Incorporated: Disability as Inscription of Cultural Otherness; Oppositional Bodies, or, Disability's Challenge to Able-Bodied Normativity; The Hero's Two Bodies: Disabled Veterans.

Left Behind: Disability in Veteran (Auto)BiographiesA Culture of Hope"? Disability as Media Format; Zones of Vulnerability: Disability and Environmental Exposure; Spectral Disabilities, or, What You See Is What you (Don't) Get; Markers of (Un)Certainty: "Age," "Disability" and Communicative Interaction; III. Corporeal Semiotics: The Body of the Text / the Text of the Body; 1. Textualizing Life--an Incomplete Project; Bodies in Emergence and Emergency; National Intimacies: The "Politics of Life" and the Religious Right; Re-Writing the Book of Life: Genomics.

Finding a Text for the Book of Life; Biological Futures; Parables of the Possible: Contours of an Enhanced Life; We the People, in Order to Have More Perfect Bodies: Biotechnology and Neoliberal Governance; 2. Representations and the Traces of Suffering; Putting It in Words, or, Another Distrust in the Signifier; Emphatic Embodiment; Private Practice; Pain as Inner Experience; The We of Pain; Pain as Relationship and Relation; 3. The Silent Killer: Cancer(s); Stories We Die By: Cancers as Story Generators; Somatics, Semantics and the Allegory of Unregulated Growth; When the Flesh Becomes Word, or, The Semiotic Model of Human Embodiment; InConclusive: Human Biology and the Work of Cultural Critique; Biology, American Studies and Cultural Critique; Figures of the Collective: Human Biology as Cultural Idiom and Issue.

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