One of Us
Subtitle: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674012943
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Popular science; Social & cultural anthropology; Siblings; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Handicapped; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Abnormalities, Human; Conjoined twins
Description: "One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with these anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context - the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the "normal." In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined."--BOOK JACKET.