This mortal coil : the human body in history and culture /
Hamlet's "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, s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Body in Parts
- 1. Getting it Straight: Spines, Scoliosis and the Hunchback King
- 2. Beauty and the Breast: from Paraffin to PIP
- 3. 'Country Matters': The Language and Politics of Female Genitalia
- 4. 'Soft and Tender' or 'Weighed down by Grief:' The Emotional Heart
- 5. Mind the Brain: From 'Cold Wet Matter' to the Origin of Thought
- 6. From Excrement to Boundary: Rethinking Skin
- 7. Tongue-Tied? From Nagging Wives to a Question of Taste
- 8. Fat. So? Gut Knowledge and the Meanings of Obesity
- Conclusion: Towards Embodiment.