Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empi

The writ of habeas corpus is the principal means by which state prisoners, many on death row, attack the constitutionality of their conviction in federal courts

This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subje

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of