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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463454503321

Titolo

Back to the future of the body [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dominic Janes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, c2007

ISBN

1-4438-4630-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JanesDominic

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

What can the past tell us about the future(s) of the body? The origins of this collection of papers lie in the work of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities which has been involved in presenting a series of international workshops and conferences on the theme of the cultural life of the body. The rationale for these events was that, in concepts as diverse as the cyborg, the questioning of mind/body dualism, the contemporary image of the suicide bomber and the patenting of human genes, we ...