This mortal coil : the human body in history and culture / Fay Bound Alberti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--History--Social aspects.

Human body.

Human physiology--History.

Human physiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

With wit, insight, and earthy wisdom, a book that explores the nature of the self, the relationship between the brain and the heart, the gendering of our physical and emotional selves, and the struggle to accommodate mind and body, emotions and experience.

Contents:

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedications ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations ; Introduction: The Body in Parts ; 1. Getting it Straight: Spines, Scoliosis, and the Hunchback King ; The Case of Richard III; Spine as Framework ; Gendering the Bones; Surgical Intervention ; 2. Beauty and the Breast: From Paraffin to PIP ; The Origins of Cosmetic Surgery; Hypomastia and the Pathologization of Small Breasts

The Silicone AgePIP and Déjà Vu; From Patient to Consumer: Liberation or Liability? ; 3. 'Country Matters': The Language and Politics of Female Genitalia ; Passivity and the 'Woman's Part(s)'; The Vulva Monologues; To Bare or Not to Bare; The 'Knot of Virginity': The Significance of the Hymen; Locating the Clitoris ; 4. 'Soft and Tender' or 'Weighed down by Grief ': The Emotional Heart ; The Transplanted Heart

The Troubling History of the TransplantThe Galenic Inheritance; The Heart as Material Organ: From Furnace to Pump; The Heart of Romanticism; Towards a New Understanding of the Emotional Heart of Science ; 5. Mind the Brain: From 'Cold Wet Matter' to the Motherboard ; The Partial Recovery of Phineas Gage; Dissecting the Onion; Vitalism and the Mechanists; Mysteries of 'Mind'; Materializing Difference; The Survival of the Immaterial Soul

6. From Excrement to Boundary: Touching on the skin Charles Uncle and the Science of Skin ; Visible Difference: The Invention of Race; Emotional Expression ; 7. Tongue-Tied? From Nagging Wives to a Question of Taste ; The Tongue as Gendered Weapon; A Question of Taste; A Barometer of Health and Disease; 8. Fat. So? Gut Knowledge and the Meanings of Obesity ; The Case of Daniel Lambert

From Galen to Cheyne: Diet and ObesityMeasuring Obesity, Creating Waste; Greedy Guts? Obesity as a Moral Offence; Beyond the Thermodynamic Model; Obesity, Digestion, and the Emergence of 'Gut Feelings'; Towards The Brain in the Gut; Conclusion: Towards Embodiment ; Notes ; Introduction. The Body in Parts; Chapter 1. Getting it Straight: Spines, Scoliosis and the Hunchback King ; Chapter 2. Beauty and the Breast: From Paraffin to PIP; Chapter 3. 'Country Matters': The Language and Politics of Female Genitalia

Chapter 4. 'Soft and Tender' or 'Weighed down by Grief': The Emotional Heart

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-979344-1