.... In the process it dovetailed with a host of nuisance laws concerned with the public visibility of multiple problem bodies, particularly those of Chinese immigrants, prostitutes, and those deemed maimed or diseased. urban policing insane asylums public space ...

... Israeli security behavioral psychology affect public body suspicion ...

... inconspicuousness. The chapter draws on the resources of performance studies to offer a critique of the pseudoscience informing behavior detection. Israeli security behavioral psychology affect public body suspicion ...

... of medical and public health intervention. As an epigenetic vector, the maternal body is at once a background element, a medium for the fetus. Yet it is also a ‘critical’ developmental context in which environmental exposures are amplified, cues are transmitted, and genes are programmed. Reflection...

... This chapter assembles a newspaper archive to tell a public history of both the injured U.S. soldier body and Walter Reed, a key site from which that image has been projected since World War I. Certain themes recur uncannily over the century of its operation: the geographical and social...

... Chapter 3 centers on the Australian heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson and the ways in which Jackson’s body features as part of a much wider and international visual program that classicized, sexualized, and eroticized the Black body in order to manage its threat to the white public after the Civil...

... Death and life are carried out through the institutional construction of the dead and through the presence (or absence) of papers and bodies. This chapter presents an ethnography of organizing, classifying, and controlling dead bodies. Public institutions, such as the offices of the civil police...