| Description |
ix, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early Victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of genes, mutations, and desires in Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar'sThe centaur in the garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant -- (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / Sally Hines -- On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II -- Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / Linda Seidel. |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Culture.
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Medicine -- History.
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History of Medicine. |
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Attitude to Health. |
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Body Image. |
| Added Author |
Klaver, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
9781438425863 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781438425856 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1438425856 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1438425864 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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