Title: Transacting sites of the liminal bodily spaces /
Authors: Florescu, Catalina Florina.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Human body in literature.; Diseases in literature.; Human Body; Medicine in the Arts; Attitude to Death; Body Image; Medicine in Literature; Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Abstract: "This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people's bodies. More specifically, it explores the spatiality and discourses of the body dying; the body opened in surgery, or through MRIs, CATs, and sometimes in autopsies; the body preserved through computerized images such as those created by the Visual Human Project; the metonymic body that continues to live in another body through organ replacement; and the bodily parts cast in silver, and then abandoned in a museum.