Scientific discourses are ‘lumpy’; they contain and enact condensed contestations for meanings and practices… the immune system is a map drawn to guide recognition and misrecognition of self and other in the dialectics of western biopolitics, That is, the immune system is a plan for meaningful action to construct and maintain the boundaries for what may count as self and other in the crucial realms of the normal and the pathological.

Donna Haraway

Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies, 204

Simians, Cyborgs and Women