1st Edition
Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture
By Francisco Ortega
Copyright 2014
216 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
216 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
216 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
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This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices.
The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised; an object of desire and of design. Francisco Ortega analyses... Read more
1. The body between constructionism and phenomenology 2. The transparent body. Toward a phenomenological critique of the medical visualization of the body 3. From ascesis to bioascesis 4. Bodies on Trial. Glimpses into the legal implications of biological identities and the challenges of disability.
Biography
Francisco Ortega is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine of King’s College, London (2012-2013).
