Home bodies : tactile experience in domestic space /
""Home Bodies exemplifies some of the best work in health humanities. Employing his fine eye as an English Studies scholar, James Krasner makes observations in matters of the body, health, medicine, and culture. His research is meticulous; his project marries the study of the body and the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2010]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. Broken homes : intimacy, tactility, and the dissolution of domestic space. Tangible grief ; Mess and memory ; The hoarder's house
- Part two. Homes without walls : intercorporeal domestic space. Homeless companions ; The healing touch
- Part three. Home at the body's edge : domesticity as somatosensory boundary definition. The language of pressure ; The leper's studio
- Postscript. Living and dying at home.