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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a '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 | |
| 520 | |a 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 questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes. | ||
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