Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality / edited by Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger.

Date:
2020
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Physical description

xxii, 170 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : bodies and transitions in the health humanities / Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger -- Enlightened wax works : viewing the anatomical woman in the Viennese Josephinum / Angelika Vybiral -- Epistemological anxiety : the case of Michel-Anne Drouart / Stephanie M. Hilger -- Charting intersex : intersex life-writing and the medical record / Katelyn Dykstra -- Narrating sex change in Iran : transsexuality and the politics of documentary film / Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi -- Isolated bodies, isolated spaces : anorexia and bulimia in women's autobiographical narratives / Barbara Grüning -- Unseen enemies : neisseria, desire, and bodily discourse / Lisa M. DeTora -- The Human Papillomavirus vaccination : gendering the rhetorics of immunization in public health discourses / Jennifer A. Malkowski -- Bacteriology and modernity : phenomenology, bio-politics, ontology / Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Being-in-alien : the trinity of bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien : Covenant (2017) / Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Ask Nunes -- Embodied transitions in Michel de Montaigne / Nora Martin Peterson and Peter Martin -- Witnessing illness : phenomenology of photographic self portraiture / Elizabeth Lanphier -- Disjunction and relationality in terminal illness writing / Yianna Liatsos -- Afterword : representation as a lens : teaching and researching in the health humanities / Carl Fisher.

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  • 9780815356066
  • 0815356064