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On Immunity de Eula Biss

On Immunity

Autor Eula Biss
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2015

O mamă își privește copilul nou-născut și simte, dincolo de dragoste, o teamă viscerală față de o lume pe care nu o poate controla: aerul pe care îl respiră, mâncarea, saltelele pe care doarme și, mai ales, substanțele care îi sunt injectate în vene. Această biografie a unei idei revelează ceva ce adesea ignorăm: faptul că imunitatea nu este un scut individual, ci o responsabilitate colectivă, un spațiu în care biologia se întâlnește inevitabil cu politica și sociologia. Considerăm că forța acestei cărți rezidă în modul în care Eula Biss transformă o dilemă personală într-o meditație vastă despre vulnerabilitate și interconectare. Ne-a atras atenția structura narativă care refuză dogmatismul. Biss nu scrie un manifest pro sau contra, ci investighează „mitul purității” prin lentila literaturii și a istoriei, invocând de la Candide al lui Voltaire până la Silent Spring de Rachel Carson. Stilul său este unul de o finețe rară, descris de critici ca fiind „stealthy” – o abordare care avansează metodic, asemenea unui jucător de șah, pentru a demonta anxietățile moderne. Pe același raft cu Selling Immunity Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine de Mark Davis, dar cu un accent pe experiența umană, maternă și pe dimensiunea poetică a științei, volumul publicat de Fitzcarraldo Editions reușește să „răcească” și să consoleze o imaginație colectivă adesea incendiată de frică. Este, în esență, o pledoarie pentru recunoașterea faptului că trupurile noastre și destinele noastre sunt indisolubil legate de ale celorlalți.

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ISBN-13: 9781555977207
ISBN-10: 1555977200
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Graywolf Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor care dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile culturale ale dezbaterilor contemporane despre sănătate. Eula Biss oferă o perspectivă nuanțată care depășește simpla polarizare, câștigând o claritate rară asupra modului în care ne raportăm la risc și comunitate. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a metaforelor care ne guvernează sănătatea, totul într-un stil narativ captivant, apreciat inclusiv de Bill Gates în seria Gates Notes - Cărți recomandate de Bill Gates.

Despre autor

Eula Biss (născută în 1977) este o voce proeminentă a eseisticii americane contemporane, autoare a patru volume de non-ficțiune care explorează intersecțiile dintre viața privată și structurile sociale. Recunoașterea sa internațională a fost consolidată prin premii de prestigiu, inclusiv National Book Critics Circle Award și o bursă Guggenheim. Ca editor fondator al Essay Press, Biss și-a dedicat cariera explorării formelor hibride de scriere, unde rigoarea jurnalistică se împletește cu sensibilitatea literară, transformând subiecte complexe precum imunitatea sau proprietatea în narațiuni profund umane.

Recenzii

Praise for "Notes from No Man's Land"

"The most accomplished book of essays anyone has written or published so far in the twenty-first century . . . It is strident and brave in its unwillingness to offer comfort . . . It is unimpeachably great." --Kyle Minor, "Salon
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"I fought with this book. I shouted, 'Amen!' I cursed at it for being so wildly wrong and right. It's so smart, combative, surprising, and sometimes shocking that it kept me twisting and turning in my seat like I was on some kind of sociopolitical roller coaster ride. Eula Biss writes with equal parts beauty and terror. I love it." --Sherman Alexie

"A beautiful exercise in consciousness; in bringing both intelligence and experience to bear on a subject that has implications for the way one behaves in the world." --"Los Angeles Times"
Praise for "On Immunity: """ "Biss ably tracks the progress of immunization. . . . Biss also administers a thoughtful, withering critique to more recent fears of vaccines--the toxins they carry, from mercury to formaldehyde, and accusations of their role in causing autism. The author keeps the debate lively and surprising, touching on Rachel Carson here and 'Dr. Bob' there. She also includes her father's wise counsel, which accommodates the many sides of the topic but arrives at a clear point of view: Vaccinate. Brightly informative, giving readers a sturdy platform from which to conduct their own research and take personal responsibility." --"Kirkus Reviews," starred review "[A] far-reaching and unusual investigation into immunity. . . . Artfully mixing motherhood, myth, maladies, and metaphors into her presentation, Biss transcends medical science and trepidation." --"Booklist," starred review "Eula Biss sanely takes on the anti-vaccine mob." --"Vanity Fair""" "Deftly interweaving personal history, cultural analysis, science journalism, and literary criticism, "On Immunity" investigates vaccinations from many angles--as the mechanism that protects us from disease, a metaphor for our wish for invulnerability, and a class-based privilege. . . . [Biss] has been compared to Joan Didion, and the reasons are obvious here. Like Didion she has a gift for coming at her subjects from all sides, in unsentimental, lyrical prose." --"Bookforum" "A thoughtful and probing analysis of the cultural myths surrounding vaccination. Biss mines within herself and within her community to understand how and why such myths gain traction in society." --Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of "What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine" Praise for "Notes from No Man's Land"
"The most accomplished book of essays anyone has written or published so far in the twenty-first century . . . It is strident and brave in its unwillingness to offer comfort . . . It is unimpeachably great." --Kyle Minor, "Salon
"
"I fought with this book. I shouted, 'Amen!' I cursed at it for being so wildly wrong and right. It's so smart, combative, surprising, and sometimes shocking that it kept me twisting and turning in my seat like I was on some kind of sociopolitical roller coaster ride. Eula Biss writes with equal parts beauty and terror. I love it." --Sherman Alexie
"A beautiful exercise in consciousness; in bringing both intelligence and experience to bear on a subject that has implications for the way one behaves in the world." --"Los Angeles Times"
Praise for "On Immunity: """ "Subtle, spellbinding. . . . Sontag said she wrote" Illness as Metaphor" to 'calm the imagination, not to incite it, ' and" On Immunity" also seeks to cool and console. But where Sontag was imperious, Biss is stealthy. She advances from all sides, like a chess player, drawing on science, myth, literature to herd us to the only logical end, to vaccinate." --"The New York Times Book Review""" ""On Immunity" casts a spell. . . . There's drama in watching this smart writer feel her way through this material. She's a poet, an essayist and a class spy. She digs honestly into her own psyche and into those of 'people like me, ' and she reveals herself as believer and apostate, moth and flame." --Dwight Garner, "The New York Times""" "Fascinating. . . . Biss can turn practically anything into a metaphor for immunity: Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Occupy Wall Street movement, immigration policy, Greek mythology. . . . By exploring the anxieties about what's lurking inside our flu shots, the air, and ourselves, she drives home the message that we are all responsible for one another. "On Immunity" will make you consider that idea on a fairly profound level." --"Entertainment Weekly, "Grade: A "Biss's gracious rhetoric and her insistence that she feels 'uncomfortable with both sides' of the rancorous fight may frustrate readers looking for a pro-vaccine polemic. Yet her approach might actually be more likely to sway fearful parents, offering them an alternative set of images and associations to use in thinking about immunization. . . . Compelling. . . . This is writing designed to conquer anxiety." --"The New Yorker""" "Deftly interweaving personal history, cultural analysis, science journalism, and literary criticism, "On Immunity" investigates vaccinations from many angles--as the mechanism that protects us from disease, a metaphor for our wish for invulnerability, and a class-based privilege. . . . [Biss] has been compared to Joan Didion, and the reasons are obvious here. Like Didion she has a gift for coming at her subjects from all sides, in unsentimental, lyrical prose." --Meghan O'Rourke, "Bookforum""" "Eula Biss sanely takes on the anti-vaccine mob." --"Vanity Fair""" "[An] elegant, intelligent and very beautiful book, which occupies a space between research and reflection, investigating our attitudes toward immunity and inoculation through a personal and cultural lens." --"Los Angeles Times """ "Biss ably tracks the progress of immunization. . . . Biss also administers a thoughtful, withering critique to more recent fears of vaccines--the toxins they carry, from mercury to formaldehyde, and accusations of their role in causing autism. The author keeps the debate lively and surprising, touching on Rachel Carson here and 'Dr. Bob' there. She also includes her father's wise counsel, which accommodates the many sides of the topic but arrives at a clear point of view: Vaccinate. Brightly informative, giving readers a sturdy platform from which to conduct their own research and take personal responsibility." --"Kirkus Reviews," starred review "[A] far-reaching and unusual investigation into immunity. . . . Artfully mixing motherhood, myth, maladies, and metaphors into her presentation, Biss transcends medical science and trepidation." --"Booklist," starred review "A thoughtful and probing analysis of the cultural myths surrounding vaccination. Biss mines within herself and within her community to understand how and why such myths gain traction in society." --Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of "What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine"

Notă biografică

Eula Biss is the author of "The Balloonists" and "Notes from No Man's Land," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and which "Salon" deemed "the most accomplished book of essays anyone has written or published so far in the twenty-first century." Her work has appeared in "The""Believer," "Harper's Magazine," and "The New York Times." She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in the Chicago area and teaches at Northwestern University.

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The hugely acclaimed "New York Times "Best Seller, now available in paperback
*A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist*
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2014:
"The New York Times Book Review "(Top 10), "Entertainment Weekly "(Top 10)," New York Magazine," "Chicago Tribune" (Top 10), "Publishers Weekly "(Top 10), "Time Out New York "(Top 10), " Los Angeles Times," "Kirkus, " "Booklist, " NPR's "Science Friday," "Newsday," "Slate, " "Refinery 29," and many more...
In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests that we cannot immunize our children, or ourselves, against the world. As she explores the metaphors surrounding immunity, Biss extends her conversations with other mothers to meditations on the myth of Achilles, Voltaire's "Candide," Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," Susan Sontag's "AIDS and Its Metaphors," and beyond. "On Immunity" is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates.