Francisco Ortega

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 16
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415593229
• ISBN-10: 0415593220
• Artikelnr.: 35455261

Autorenporträt

Francisco Ortega is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine of King's College, London (2012-2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The body between constructionism and phenomenology 2. The transparent
body. Toward a phenomenological critique of the medical visualization of
the body 3. From ascesis to bioascesis 4. Bodies on Trial. Glimpses into
the legal implications of biological identities and the challenges of
disability.