1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450964503321

Titolo

Perspectives on embodiment : the intersections of nature and culture / / edited by Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-96399-1

0-203-90649-7

0-203-90525-3

1-280-31697-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaberHoni Fern <1958->

WeissGail <1959->

Disciplina

128/.6

Soggetti

Body image

Body schema

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers "inspired by a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute on embodiment. held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu; The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era; The Abject Borders of the Body Image; Claiming One's Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach; Embodied Reason; The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science; Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy; Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology; Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism

The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojve and LacanDisciplining the Dead; The Preservation and Ownership of the Body; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778608203321

Titolo

Summary [[electronic resource] /] / Committee to Study the Prevention of Low Birthweight, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985

ISBN

1-280-22230-1

9786610222308

0-309-58149-4

0-585-14488-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 p.)

Collana

Preventing low birthweight

Disciplina

362.1/982

Soggetti

Birth weight, Low - United States

Premature infants - United States - Growth

Prenatal care - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 40-41.