The Body in Medical Thought and Practice

The Body in Medical Thought and Practice edited by D. Leder.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and behavio...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Leder, D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992.
Edition:1st ed. 1992.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, 43
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medicine—Philosophy.
Phenomenology .
Modern philosophy.
Medicine—History.
Medical ethics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • A Tale of Two Bodies: The Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body
  • Why Aren’t More Doctors Phenomenologists?
  • Foucault’s Political Body in Medical Praxis
  • On the Body in Medical Self-Care and Holistic Medicine
  • A Confucian Perspective on Embodiment
  • Parted Bodies, Departed Souls: The Body in Ancient Medicine and Anatomy
  • The Body in Multiple Sclerosis: A Patient’s Perspective
  • Psychosomatics, the Lived Body, and Anthropological Medicine: Concerning a Case of Atopic Dermatitis
  • The Body with AIDS: A Post-Structuralist Approach
  • Obesity, Objectification, and Identity: The Encounter with the Body as an Object in Obesity
  • Eating Disorders: The Feminist Challenge to the Concept of Pathology
  • Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling
  • The Body of the Future
  • Notes on Contributors.

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