1st Edition
Our Strange Body Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions
By Jenny Slatman
Copyright 2014
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on... Read more
Preface & Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter I: Heavy, Inanimate and Nauseating Bodies, Chapter II: Body Boundaries, Chapter III: Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am, Chapter IV: I Exist on the Outside, Chapter V: My Strange I, Epilogue, Works Cited, Index of Names, Index of Subjects
Biography
Jenny Slatman is associate professor philosophy in the department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University. She has published widely on the issue of embodiment in relation to both modern culture and medicine, including L'expression au-delà de la représentation (2003)
