Flexible Bodies: the Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to The

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Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS by Emily Martin

1.  Where do the data come from:

2.  What is the research question that she asks?

3.  What were popular images of the way that the body worked with regard to health by the 1950’s?

4.  How did images change after 1954?

5.  What is our image, as seen through the eyes of immunologists, by the end of the 20th century?

6.  How does the current media portray the immune system?

7.  What are our popular, street images of the immune system?

8.What are the implications of thinking of the immune system as a complex system?

9.What are the consequences of seeing the immune system as flexible?