Corporeality, medical technologies and contemporary culture /

"Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body. On the one hand, the body is where we turn for the certainties of nature; yet, on the other, it is the locus of a desire for permanent tran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ortega, Francisco, 1967-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Birkbeck law press.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The body between constructionism and phenomenology
  • The transparent body
  • From ascesis to bioascesis
  • Bodies on trial.