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Surface tensions : surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self / Lenore Manderson.
- Title
- Surface tensions : surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self / Lenore Manderson.
- Author
- Manderson, Lenore.
- Publication
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HM636 .M33 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- p.; cm.
- Summary
- "Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients, Manderson's work challenges conventional ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies"--
- Subject
- Human body > Social aspects
- Body image
- People with disabilities > Psychology
- Medical anthropology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
- MEDICAL / Public Health
- MEDICAL / Prosthesis
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Physical Impairments
- Human Body
- Disabled Persons > psychology
- Self Concept
- Social Adjustment
- Surgical Procedures, Operative > psychology
- Note
- Machine generated contents note: Preface Prologue: Perdita's Story 1. The Body as Subject 2. Our Cyborg Selves, and other Modern Tales 3. Visible Ruptures: The Art of Living with Lack 4. Body Basics: Living with a Stoma 5. The Feminine in Question 6. Replaceable Parts: The End of Natural Life Conclusion: Necessity's Children.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: Perdita's story -- 1. The body as subject -- 2. Our cyborg selves, and other modern tales -- 3. Visible ruptures: the art of living with lack -- 4. Body basics: living with a stoma -- 5. The feminine in question -- 6. Replaceable parts: the end of natural life -- Conclusion: necessity's children.
- ISBN
- 9781611320978 (hardback)
- 1611320976 (hardback)
- 9781611320985 (pbk.)
- 1611320984 (pbk.)
- 9781611320992 (ebook)
- 1611320992 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2011022295
- OCLC
- 726818931
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library