The text mainly draws its ideas from the areas of
1) Sociology of immunity: beyond considering immunity as a concrete scientific 'object', the author explores behind the social conditions which are actually defining what immunity is in different time and spaces
2) Body, flexibility and work: one of the important contribution this book is into the area of flexibility and work. Today’s neoliberal policies are defining the work on the basis of flexibility. It is not the mass production, but what author called as 'tailored product with all its flexibility and specialization in production is defining the work. For example, Lilly Irani in her book argues that in this neoliberal era, it is not the reserve army of workers who are outside the perimeters of capitalism but those uncertain temporary workers coming and going out due to flexibilization of work is the real victims of it. so the defences of those who work in such unjust environment can be understood from one aspect of how the body is used as a weapon and how biopolitics of the elite is questioned can be better explained by the ideas put forwarded by Emily Martin.
