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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects; Human body - Symbolic aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JanesDominic
• 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 ...
• Titolo autorizzato: Back to the future of the body
• ISBN: 1-4438-4630-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463454503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II