The body in medical thought and practice

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Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992)
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This is the first volume to systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning the body and draw out its crucial implications for medicine.

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0792316576   9780792316572   9048141400

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Breasted experience: The look and the feeling.Iris Marion Young
A tale of two bodies: the Cartesian corpse and the lived body.  (pages 17--35)Drew Leder
A Confucian perspective on embodiment.  (pages 43--87)Tu Wei-Ming
Parted Bodies, Departed Souls: The Body in Ancient Medicine and Anatomy.  (pages 43--101)Richard M. Zaner
The body in multiple sclerosis: A patient's perspective'.  (pages 43--127)S. Kay-Toombs
The body with aids: A post-structuralist approach.  (pages 43--155)Julien S. Murphy
Why aren't more doctors phenomenologists.  (pages 43--37)Richard Baron
Foucault's political body in medical praxis.  (pages 51--68)Carole Spitzack
On the body in medical self-care and holistic medicine.  (pages 69--84)Anthony Weston
Obesity, objectification, and identity: The encounter with the body as an object in obesity.  (pages 179--196)Donald Moss
The body of the future.  (pages 233--249)Eric J. Cassell

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