... This chapter reads Catherine Malabou’s “new scheme” of plasticity and her efforts to deconstruct the biology/ history divide as an important opportunity to revisit the human/ nonhuman distinction that has been repeatedly challenged yet continues to persist in critical theory. To do so, it makes...

... differences that mark Brazilian health care and argues that the appropriation of bodily plasticity is an integral aspect of the ways in which social hierarchies of race, class or gender are renegotiated in Bahia. The chapter sets the scene ethnographically and methodologically and maps out the book’s...