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Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces.
"This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people's bodies. More specifically, it explores the spatiality and discourses of the body dying; the body opened in surgery, or through MRIs, CATs, and sometimes in autopsies; the body preserved t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people's bodies. More specifically, it explores the spatiality and discourses of the body dying; the body opened in surgery, or through MRIs, CATs, and sometimes in autopsies; the body preserved through computerized images such as those created by the Visual Human Project; the metonymic body that continues to live in another body through organ replacement; and the bodily parts cast in silver, and then abandoned in a museum. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (195) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180). |
| ISBN: | 9781283142519 1283142511 9786613142511 6613142514 1443828033 9781443828031 |