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Normality, abnormality, and pathology in Merleau-Ponty / edited by Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty's Work
- Grounding a Phenomenology of Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology
- Toward a Phenomenology of Abnormality
- What Can We Learn about the Normal from the Pathological?
- Merleau-Ponty and Ab/Normal Phenomenology
- The Abnormalcy of “Normalcy”
- The Need for Merleau-Ponty in Foucault’s Account of the Abnormal
- Practical Phenomenological Applications of Merleau-Ponty’s Theories of Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology
- Meandering Peripheries
- The Insight of Dispossession
- Moving without Movement
- A Whole New World
- Health and Other Reveries
- The Desexualization of Disabled People as Existential Harm and the Importance of Ambiguity
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438486871
- 1438486871
- OCLC:
- 1274227596
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