... that the best hope for a cure was in the vivisection of rhesus monkeys from India. Fears about the compromised capacities of immune and nervous systems and the touch of nonhuman primates were depicted in horror films representing polio labs and spinal taps. These images linked fears of medical intervention...

... Plato’s Laws colony immunity war Badiou ...

... animal in biopolitics biopolitics beyond decisionism community immunity versus nonimmunitarian politics human and nonhuman relations ...

... cervical cancer clinical trials ethics epidemiology experimental subjectivity human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine immunization public health scandal technocracy ...

... Chapter 2 elaborates a politics of civil society advocacy against unethical clinical trials in India as it developed through public scandal. It focuses upon a study conducted to facilitate the rollout of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine into India’s national immunization program, which...

... (neither human nor nonhuman) to whom things might matter, the chapter ends by making a case for a paradoxically responsible decisionism, a decisionism that endlessly limits itself by closing off any recourse to a perspective outside the frame of biopolitics. By doing away with immunity and its reciprocal...