This Mortal Coil: Our Bodies, Our Thoughts 9780199793396

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Автор: Bound Alberti Fay
Название: This Mortal Coil: Our Bodies, Our Thoughts
ISBN: 9780199793396
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0199793395
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 01.07.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 165 x 23
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Hamlets mortal coil - which eventually and inevitably we shuffle off when we enter the sleep of death, as he puts it - has never been static. Indeed how the human body and its component parts have been understood, individually and collectively, has shifted across time, shaped by culture, religion, and technology. In this probing and provocative new book, Fay Bound Alberti uses the global histories of medicine, pathology, and emotions to explore these changing notions. Each chapter uses a different focus - bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart - revealing how each body part connects to a peculiarly Western notion of expertise, one which appropriates one element from the others and ignores their interconnection.
The themes examined in This Mortal Coil - the nature of identity, the relationship between the brain and the heart, and the gendering of our physical and emotional selves - are enduring ones, but perceptions of the perfect body or perfect health evolve constantly. Moving between the surface and what lies beneath, Alberti provides a rich and fascinating accounting of each part, shedding light on the role scientific developments - from medical care to plastic surgery to cloning - plays in how we look at ourselves. Written with insight and narrative verve, Albertis provocative book reveals how the mortal coil can be unwound, and looked at as if for the first time.

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