The Transparent Body

The Transparent Body
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780295984902
ISBN-13 : 0295984902
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Transparent Body by : José van Dijck

A fascinating discussion of the cultural context and social impact of medical imaging practices.

The Body Multiple

The Body Multiple
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780822384151
ISBN-13 : 0822384159
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body Multiple by : Annemarie Mol

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. From one moment, place, apparatus, specialty, or treatment, to the next, a slightly different “atherosclerosis” is being discussed, measured, observed, or stripped away. This multiplicity does not imply fragmentation; instead, the disease is made to cohere through a range of tactics including transporting forms and files, making images, holding case conferences, and conducting doctor-patient conversations. The Body Multiple juxtaposes two distinct texts. Alongside Mol’s analysis of her ethnographic material—interviews with doctors and patients and observations of medical examinations, consultations, and operations—runs a parallel text in which she reflects on the relevant literature. Mol draws on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, boundaries, difference, situatedness, and ontology. In dialogue with one another, Mol’s two texts meditate on the multiplicity of reality-in-practice. Presenting philosophical reflections on the body and medical practice through vivid storytelling, The Body Multiple will be important to those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine.

Screening the Body

Screening the Body
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0816622906
ISBN-13 : 9780816622900
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Screening the Body by : Lisa Cartwright

Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.

Body in Medical Culture, The

Body in Medical Culture, The
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781438425962
ISBN-13 : 1438425961
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Body in Medical Culture, The by : Elizabeth Klaver

2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How do concepts and constructions of the body shape people's experiences of agency and objectification within medical culture? As an object of scrutiny, the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors, nurses, medical examiners, and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology, illness, and the various physical transformations associated with life and death. The Body in Medical Culture explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena, including disease, diagnostic practices, wellness, anatomy, surgery, and medical research. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines engage representations of bodies, including polio and masculinity, sex reassignment surgery, drug marketing, endography, "designer vaginas," and hospital humor in order to challenge the normalcy of the passively objectified medicalized body.

Mass Hysteria

Mass Hysteria
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0742533581
ISBN-13 : 9780742533585
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Mass Hysteria by : Rebecca Kukla

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.

Medical Materialities

Medical Materialities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780429853661
ISBN-13 : 0429853661
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Medical Materialities by : Aaron Parkhurst

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present and expand upon a definition of ‘medical materiality’, namely the social impact of the agency of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapters address material culture in various clinical and biomedical contexts and in discussions that link the body and healing. The diverse ethnographic case studies provide valuable insight into the way cultures of medicine are understood and practised.

The Body and Physical Difference

The Body and Physical Difference
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 0472066595
ISBN-13 : 9780472066599
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body and Physical Difference by : David T. Mitchell

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

The Body in Balance

The Body in Balance
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9780857459831
ISBN-13 : 085745983X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body in Balance by : Peregrine Horden

Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?

Body and Soul

Body and Soul
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 0816676496
ISBN-13 : 9780816676491
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Body and Soul by : Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson recovers a lesser-known aspect of The Black Panther Party's broader struggle for social justice: health care. Nelson argues that the Party's focus on health care was practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.

Medicine's Moving Pictures

Medicine's Moving Pictures
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Publisher : University Rochester Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 1580463061
ISBN-13 : 9781580463065
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine's Moving Pictures by : Leslie J. Reagan

Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medicalmedia are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, andhistorical contexts. Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow Leslie J. Reagan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a Professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a Professor atthe University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.