Adam's Navel
Subtitle: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: July 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780670032242
Subjects: Science; Symbolic aspects; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Human Anatomy; Social aspects; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Anthropology - General; Science / General; Body, Human; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Body image; Folklore
First sentence: A single versatile membrane unites the varied regions of our bodily landscape into the appearance of what Whitman called "the form complete."