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The body in medical culture

by Elizabeth Klaver

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An edition of The body in medical culture (2009)

The body in medical culture

As an object of scrutiny, the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors, nurses, medical examiners, and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology, illness, and the various physical transformations associated with life and death. This book explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena, including disease, diagnostic practices, wellness, anatomy, surgery, and medical research. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines engage representations of bodies, including polio and masculinity, sex reassignment surgery, drug marketing, endography, "designer vaginas," and hospital humor in order to challenge the normalcy of the passively objectified medicalized body.

Publish Date

2009

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Language

English

Pages

255

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Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / by Hillary M. Nunn

Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / by Sheena Sommers

"Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / by Stephen Johnson

The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / by Hayley Mitchell Haugen

Of genes, mutations, and desires in Kafka, Scliar, and Schultz / by Catalina Florina Florescu

The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / by Natalia Lizama

Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / by Catherine Belling

Designer vaginas / by Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant

(Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / by Sally Hines

On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / by Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II

Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / by Linda Seidel.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in: Albany, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 362.1
Library of Congress: RA418 .B5795 2009, RA418.B5795 2009

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Pagination: p. ;
Number of pages: 255

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL16909237M
ISBN 13: 9781438425856, 9781438425863
LCCN: 2008024284
OCLC/WorldCat: 231745544
Library Thing: 9219149
Goodreads: 7073826

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The body in medical culture

by Elizabeth Klaver