Material Bodies

TableofContents

Preface ..............................................................................................XIII

Introduction:BiologizingCulture/CulturingBiology ...........................

Familiar Strangers, or, When Biology Meets Culture–

Disciplining Biology–Biocultures: An Interdisciplinary

Synthesis?–Biology and the Research Imagination of

American Cultural Studies – Subjects in Biological

Difference(RaceandGender)

I. TheMaterialismofBiologicalEncounters.....................................

1. EmbodiedEncounters:EmergenceandEmergency .................
   On the Materialism of Biological Encounters–Biology
   and Human Mobility– A Culpable Biography – The
   "Yellow Peril" Medicalized: Chinese Immigrants and the
   BubonicPlagueof1899/1900–BiologicalTransitacross
   the American Hemisphere – Yellow Fever and the
   Biopolitics of Location–The White Man's "Biological
   Burden": Empire and Disease – Cuba and the Reed
   Yellow Fever Commission – The Philippines and the
   Specterof"ColonialBurnout"


2. ThePublicLifeofPublicDiseases:Epidemicsand
   theMassMedia................................................................... 115
   Public Opinion and Public Diseases – Disease
   Imaginaries and Narrative Form–"Dark Invaders": The
   Military Response Narrative–Biomedical Jeremiads, or,
   How Have the Revelers Fallen–From Scratch: Medical
   Sherlocks–Imagined Immunities for Imagined Commu-
   nities – Conclusion: Biological Encounters and the
   CultureofBlame