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

by Eric Cazdyn

Book Overview

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: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"