Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: DeTora, Lisa, 1966- (Editor), Hilger, Stephanie M. (Stephanie Mathilde) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : bodies and transitions in the health humanities
  • Enlightened wax works : viewing the anatomical woman in the Viennese Josephinum
  • Epistemological anxiety : the case of Michel-Anne Drouart
  • Charting intersex : intersex life-writing and the medical record
  • Narrating sex change in Iran : transsexuality and the politics of documentary film
  • Isolated bodies, isolated spaces : anorexia and bulimia in women's autobiographical narratives
  • Unseen enemies : neisseria, desire, and bodily discourse
  • The Human Papillomavirus vaccination : gendering the rhetorics of immunization in public health discourses
  • Bacteriology and modernity : phenomenology, bio-politics, ontology
  • Being-in-alien : the trinity of bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien : Covenant (2017)
  • Embodied transitions in Michel de Montaigne
  • Witnessing illness : phenomenology of photographic self portraiture
  • Disjunction and relationality in terminal illness writing
  • Afterword : representation as a lens : teaching and researching in the health humanities.