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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean T Sweeney; Ian Hodder |
ISBN: | 0521782929 9780521782920 |
OCLC Number: | 48449514 |
Description: | 176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Building the body--the molecular basis of development / Richard M. Twyman -- Mapping the body : the human genome project / Peter N. Goodfellow -- The bioethics of reproduction : have the problems changed? / Mary Warnock -- The violated body / David Canter -- The dead body and human rights / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Nude bodies : displacing the boundaries between art and pornography / Griselda Pollock -- Body, cyborgs and the politics of incarnation / Bruno Latour -- The Iceman's body--the 5000 year old glacial mummy from the Ötztal Alps / Konrad Spindler. |
Series Title: | Darwin College lectures. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder. |
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Abstract:
Eight essays on our perception of the human body, in society, popular culture, science and the arts by highly eminent researchers. From the remarkable molecular processes that occur during the development of the body, to the ethics of reproduction and our perception of death, and of the body as art.
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"...a thoughtful and topical volume...a coherent and approachable into current themes in the study of the human body as both a biological and cultural object, its attributes and its representation." SAS Bulletin Read more...

