Missing bodies
Subtitle: the politics of visibility
By: Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore.
Contributors: Moore, Lisa Jean, 1967-
Series: Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st Century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780814716779; 9780814716786
Subjects: Body, Human (Philosophy); Body image; Mortality; Masculinity; Equality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The bodies we see, and some that are not here; title: Seen but not heard : consequences of innocence lost; title: Calculated losses : taking the measure of infant mortality; title: Biodisaster : "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth"; title: Fluid matters : human biomonitoring as gendered surveillance; title: "They used me" : manufacturing heroes in wartime; title: It takes balls : Lance Armstrong and the triumph of American masculinity; title: Excavations.