Our strange body : philosophical reflections on identity and medical interventions / Jenny Slatman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slatman, J. (Jenny), author.

Standardized Title:

Vreemd lichaam. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Body image.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface & Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies

2. Body Boundaries

3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am

4. I Exist on the Outside

5. My Strange I

Epilogue

Works Cited

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Originally published in Dutch as Vreemd lichaam: over medisch ingrijpen en persoonlijke identiteit, by Ambo, Amsterdam, 2008, reprinted in 2011.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-70096-9

1-04-077230-7

90-485-2475-X

90-485-2314-1

OCLC:

1089009884