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The body in medical culture, edited by Elizabeth Klaver

Label
The body in medical culture, edited by Elizabeth Klaver
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.governmentPublication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The body in medical culture
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
231745544
Responsibility statement
edited by Elizabeth Klaver
Table Of 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
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