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The body / edited by Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Darwin College lectures
- The Darwin College lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Human physiology.
- Human genome.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Building the Body - The Molecular Basis of Development / Richard M. Twyman 12
- 2 Mapping the Body - the Human Genome Project / Peter N. Goodfellow 25
- 3 The Bioethics of Reproduction. Have the Problems Changed? / Mary Warnock 39
- 4 The Violated Body / David Canter 57
- 5 The Dead Body and Human Rights / Thomas W. Laqueur 75
- 6 Nude Bodies: Displacing the Boundaries between Art and Pornography / Griselda Pollock 94
- 7 Body, Cyborgs and the Politics of Incarnation / Bruno Latour 127
- 8 The Iceman's Body - the 5000 Year Old Glacial Mummy from the Otztal Alps / Konrad Spindler 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521782929
- OCLC:
- 48449514
- Online:
- Publisher description
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