| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78236 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | In this dissertation, I propose an immuno-environmental model of biomedical phenomena in which human and nonhuman entities participate actively in vital material-semiotic assemblages with discursive and material capacity in which indeterminacy and uncertainty are always at work. In order to demonstrate my argument, I examine a variety of documents as sociocultural archives of expert and non-expert immunological knowledge practices, including scientific articles and medical studies, fictional and non-fictional accounts, social media, blogs and news reports. My project is therefore invested both in the ontological and in the epistemological foundations of immunological knowledge, which I contend collapse the boundaries between the self-contained, autonomous (human) subject and its physical and social surroundings. I use case studies of two chronic health conditions to examine in detail how immunological assemblages are enacted and materialized: celiac disease, an autoimmune gastrointestinal disorder, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, an idiopathic environmental syndrome. | |
| dcterms.available | 2018-06-21T13:38:39Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Diedrich, Lisa | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Hesford, Victoria | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | O'Byrne, Anne | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Wilson, Elizabeth A. | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Hiemstra, Nancy | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Jorge Varino, Sofia Helena | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-06-21T13:38:39Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2018-06-21T13:38:39Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 263 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78236 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.subject | American studies | |
| dcterms.subject | Gender identity | |
| dcterms.subject | cultural studies | |
| dcterms.subject | United States | |
| dcterms.subject | Science—History | |
| dcterms.subject | environmental studies | |
| dcterms.subject | feminist science studies | |
| dcterms.subject | gender studies | |
| dcterms.subject | history of science | |
| dcterms.title | Vital Differences. Indeterminacy and the Biomedical Body | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
