Abjectly boundless
Subtitle: boundaries, bodies and health work
By: edited by Trudy Rudge and Dave Holmes
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780754679103; 9780754698029
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Blurring the boundaries : breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity / Virginia Schmied and Deborah Lupton; title: Menstruation and Dene physical practices / Audrey Giles; title: "What it means to see" : reading gender in medical examinations of suicide / Katrina Jaworski; title: Fearing sex : toxic bodies, paranoia and the rise of technophilia / Dave Holmes and Cary Federman; title: Eroticizing the abject : understanding the role of skeeting in sexual practices / Patrick O'Byrne; title: Spoiled identities: women's experiences after mastectomy / Roanne Thomas-MacLean; title: 'Betwixt and between nothingness' : abjection and blood stem cell transplantation / Beverleigh Quested; title: Managing the other within the self : bodily experiences of HIV/AIDS / Marilou Gagnon; title: 'She exists within me' : subjectivity, embodiment and the world's first facial transplant / Marc Lafrance; title: The abject body in requests for assisted death : symptomatic, dependent, shameful and temporal / Annette Street and David Kissane; title: Losing Private Kovko : when military masculinity goes SNAFU / Jackie Cook; title: Strange yet compelling : anxiety and abjection in hospital nursing / Alicia Evans; title: Subjectivity and embodiment : acknowledging abjection in nursing / Janet McCabe; title: Encountering the other : nursing, dementia care, and the self / Dave Holmes, Sylvie Lauzon, and Marilou Gagnon; title: Dirty nursing : containing defilement and infection control practices / Allison Roderick; title: Regaining skin : wounds, dressings, and the containment of abjection / Trudy Rudge.