The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness

by Eric Cazdyn

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In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted drug therapies and biotechnology to manage rather than cure diseases, global capitalism aims not for resolution but rather for a continual state of crisis management that perpetuates the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822352281

ISBN13:9780822352280

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Philosophy Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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