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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.

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State University of New York Press
Language
English
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255

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Body Image, History, Social aspects, Social medicine, Culture, Medicine, History of Medicine, Human Body, Attitude to Health, Human body, Human body, social aspects, Medicine, history, Body image

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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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362.1
Library of Congress
RA418 .B5795 2009, RA418.B5795 2009

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p. ;
Number of pages
255

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OL16909237M
ISBN 13
9781438425856, 9781438425863
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2008024284
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231745544
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9219149
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7073826

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