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Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality / edited by Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Diseases.
- Human body.
- Health attitudes.
- Medicine and the humanities.
- Human Body.
- Attitude.
- Disease.
- Infections.
- Gender Identity.
- Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Human Body.
- Attitude.
- Disease.
- Infections.
- Gender Identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Stephanie Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women Write Back (2009) and Gender and Genre (2015). She is also the (co)-editor of New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies (2017) and The Early History of Embodied Cognition (2015). Lisa M. DeTora is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University. She has published widely on scientific and medical affairs and the medical humanities. In addition, she is the editor of Heroes of Film, Comics, and American Culture (2009) and Regulatory Writing: An Overview (2017).
- Contents:
- Introduction : bodies and transitions in the health humanities / Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger
- Enlightened wax works : viewing the anatomical woman in the Viennese Josephinum / Angelika Vybiral
- Epistemological anxiety : the case of Michel-Anne Drouart / Stephanie M. Hilger
- Charting intersex : intersex life-writing and the medical record / Katelyn Dykstra
- Narrating sex change in Iran : transsexuality and the politics of documentary film / Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi
- Isolated bodies, isolated spaces : anorexia and bulimia in women's autobiographical narratives / Barbara GruÌning
- Unseen enemies : neisseria, desire, and bodily discourse / Lisa M. DeTora
- The Human Papillomavirus vaccination : gendering the rhetorics of immunization in public health discourses / Jennifer A. Malkowski
- Bacteriology and modernity : phenomenology, bio-politics, ontology / Jens Lohfert JÃ ̧rgensen
- Being-in-alien : the trinity of bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien : Covenant (2017) / Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Ask Nunes
- Embodied transitions in Michel de Montaigne / Nora Martin Peterson and Peter Martin
- Witnessing illness : phenomenology of photographic self portraiture / Elizabeth Lanphier
- Disjunction and relationality in terminal illness writing / Yianna Liatsos
- Afterword : representation as a lens : teaching and researching in the health humanities / Carl Fisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barton Hirst Lippincott Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bodies in transition in the health humanities
- ISBN:
- 9781351128742
- 1351128744
- 9781351128728
- 1351128728
- 9781351128735
- 1351128736
- 9781351128711
- 135112871X
- Publisher Number:
- 99981510941
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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