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The distressed body : rethinking illness, imprisonment, and healing /
Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditions experienced by prisoners in our age of mass in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illness and treatment : phenomenological investigations. Rethinking illness : Philoctetes' exile ; Rethinking pain : the paradoxical problem ; Rethinking touch : how then does it heal? ; Rethinking pills : fantasies, realities, possibilities ; Rethinking clinical practice : toward a more materialistic medicine
- Medicine and bioethics : hermeneutical reflections. Rethinking diagnosis : the many texts of medicine ; Rethinking bioethics : questioning our answers, and our questions ; Rethinking organ transplants : whose body, what body?
- Discarded and recovered bodies : animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms : Old McDonald's had a what? ; Rethinking imprisonment : the life-world of the incarcerated ; Rethinking prisons : the enlightened (and endarkened) prison ; Rethinking prisoners and animals : "they're animals" and their animals ; Rethinking humans and/as animals : the art of shape-shifting.