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Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture (Hardcover)
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Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Birkbeck Law Press
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This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest
in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related
bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the
certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation
and reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and
despised; an object of desire and of design. Francisco Ortega
analyses how the body has become both a screen for the projection
of our ideas and imaginings about ourselves and conversely an
object of suspicion, anxiety, and discomfort. Addressing practices
of corporeal ascesis (such as bodybuilding and dietetics), medical
technologies, and radical anatomical modifications, Ortega
documents the ambiguous legacy of a western theoretical tradition
that has always despised the body. Utilising a theoretical
framework that is mainly informed by the phenomenology of the body,
feminist theory, disability studies and the thought of Michel
Foucault, Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary
Culture address several ethical and psychological issues associated
with the experience and perception of the body in our cultural
landscape. Drawing on these diverse areas of philosophical and
analytical work, this book will interest those researching Law,
Medicine, and Sociology.
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