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On Immunity An Inoculation

Eula Biss

Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, R...

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The Daily Stoic

The book's discussion of immunity as a collective rather than individual concept was highlighted as insightful.

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there's a great book on immunity by Yulebis and it was the first time reading it she's a non-fiction writer is the first time I begin to understand she articulated that immunity is not about you yeah...

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Episode: Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learnin...

The book's discussion of immunity as a collective rather than individual concept was highlighted as insightful.

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there's a great book on immunity by Yulebis and it was the first time reading it she's a non-fiction writer is the first time I begin to understand she articulated that immunity is not about you yeah I know it's about how the participation and she had been ready while she was pregnant in the 2010s you know and and she'd a great writer go to Iowa and it was the first time I step back and realize like those systems you talk about it's about your participation in them not to protect you but so all of us can come together and get a different outcome then we have to get individually we have this understanding of America being about liberty which it is but there's liberty and then there's responsibility yeah and they were seen that the idea was government would create liberty and then philosophy and culture would create virtue and these two things have to coexist or operate together for the package to work

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