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Our strange body : philosophical reflections on identity and medical interventions
The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating ques...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface & Acknowledgments; Introduction; The issue of identity: Being self and other; Social-scientific and ethical analyses of body modifications; A phenomenology of identity; 1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies; Carrying along our body; The fallen soul; Inanimate life; The modern soul; The soul that inhabits the stomach; Reality bracketed off; Sweating and blushing; 2. Body Boundaries; Strange bones; Handiness, or handling one's world; Body schema; Leib and Körper: Difference and unity; Tolerating the strange; Limits to tolerance; 3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am
- 'Oh my God, I look as hot as I feel'Narcissism; Other Narcissuses; The power of the gaze; Own and strange in the mirror image; 4. I Exist on the Outside; Turned inside out; The inner self as unassailable stronghold; Seen from the outside; Touch; Recognition without narcissism; 5. My Strange I; Prosthetic wings; The speaking and spoken I; Thinking is speaking; For
- sum; Living with intruders; What is strange and what is own; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index of Names; Index of Subjects