The body in medical culture
By: edited by Elizabeth Klaver.
Contributors: Klaver, Elizabeth.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781438425856; 9781438425863
Subjects: Social medicine; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Culture; Medicine -- History; History of Medicine; Human Body; Attitude to Health; Body Image
Description: As an object of scrutiny, the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors, nurses, medical examiners, and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology, illness, and the various physical transformations associated with life and death. This book explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena, including disease, diagnostic practices, wellness, anatomy, surgery, and medical research. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines engage representations of bodies, including polio and masculinity, sex reassignment surgery, drug marketing, endography, "designer vaginas," and hospital humor in order to challenge the normalcy of the passively objectified medicalized body.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / by Hillary M. Nunn; title: Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / by Sheena Sommers; title: "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / by Stephen Johnson; title: The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / by Hayley Mitchell Haugen; title: Of genes, mutations, and desires in Kafka, Scliar, and Schultz / by Catalina Florina Florescu; title: The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / by Natalia Lizama; title: Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / by Catherine Belling; title: Designer vaginas / by Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant; title: (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / by Sally Hines; title: On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / by Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II; title: Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / by Linda Seidel.