This book considers how a culture of crisis management-what Cazdyn calls "the new chronic"- has come to dominate all aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. Drawing from his own experiences battling leukemia and the subsequent effects of his illness on the process of becoming a Canadian citizen, Cazdyn unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part 1. The New Chronic 13
Part 2. The Global Abyss 99
Part 3. The Already Dead 159
Notes 205
Selected Bibliography 217
Index 221