Bodies of Information (eBook, ePUB)

Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop
Redaktion: Mounsey, Chris; Booth, Stan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter's founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000734706
• Artikelnr.: 58062976

Autorenporträt

Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bodies of Information Part I: The Unknown Body 1. Dis/ability
in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach 2. The Imagined
Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture 3. Hideous and
Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales 4:
Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote's Amputation to His
Performance in The Nabob Part II: The General Body 5. Violence and the
Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth
Century 6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State 7. A
"Profession" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the
Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice 8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes's
Pneumatic Therapy Part III: The Particular Body 9. The Spector of the
Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation 10. The Infinite
Variety of La Casati 11. "The Vagabond Venus": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes
Tattoos 12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj's VariAble Body