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. This Book 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. Home Bodies : Matters Of Weight In Renaissance Women's Medical Manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping Maternity In The Courtroom : Female Defenses And Medical Witnesses In Eighteenth-century Infanticide Proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- Surely He Cannot Be Flesh And Blood : The Early Victorian Anatomical Museum And The Blackface Minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The Disabled Imagination And The Masculine Metaphor In The Works Of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of Genes, Mutations, And Desires In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis And Moacyr Scliar'sthe Centaur In The Garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The Post-biological Body : Horror, Nostalgia And The Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : A Physician's Dream Of Omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer Vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy And Jennifer L. Croissant -- (trans) Gendered Fabrications And The Surgery Debates / Sally Hines -- On Slanderous Words And Bodies Out-of-control : Hospital Humor And The Medical Carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert And Antonio Salud Ii -- Dr. Jarvik And Other Baby Boomers : (still) Performing The Able Body / Linda Seidel. Edited By Elizabeth Klaver. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Klaver, Elizabeth

Albany, NY: SUNY Press

United States, United States of America

Albany, NY, cop. 2009

Illustrated, 2009

1, US, 2009

Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ix, 255 p. : 23 cm
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. This book 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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early Victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of genes, mutations, and desires in Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar'sThe centaur in the garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant -- (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / Sally Hines -- On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II -- Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / Linda Seidel

Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.
How do concepts and constructions of the body shape peoples 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.
"a real page-turner The articles are well written, sophisticated, and intellectually stimulating. CHOICE
One of the most impressive features of this volume is the wide range of disciplines represented throughout Klavers collection of essays on the body in medicine is interesting, intelligent, and readable." H-Disability
Klavers collection of essays on the body in medicine is interesting, intelligent, and readable. It is a good, sane take on an important topic in both cultural studies and the medical humanities. Kathryn Montgomery, author of How Doctors Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early Victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of genes, mutations, and desires in Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar's The centaur in the garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant -- (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / Sally Hines -- On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II -- Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / Linda Seidel

Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / by Hillary M. Nunn
Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / by Sheena Sommers
"Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / by Stephen Johnson
The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / by Hayley Mitchell Haugen
Of genes, mutations, and desires in Kafka, Scliar, and Schultz / by Catalina Florina Florescu
The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / by Natalia Lizama
Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / by Catherine Belling
Designer vaginas / by Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant
(Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / by Sally Hines
On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / by Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II
Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / by Linda Seidel.

<p><P>Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.</p>

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