Bodies in Transitions in the Health Humanities : Representations of Corporeal...

by Detora, Lisa M. (EDT); Hilger, Stephanie Mathilde (EDT)

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Bodies in Transitions in the Health Humanities : Representations of Corporeality, Hardcover by Detora, Lisa M. (EDT); Hilger, Stephanie Mathilde (EDT), ISBN 0815356064, ISBN-13 9780815356066, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and possibilities. Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn, have contributed to a proliferation of public and private debates about the boundaries of personal identity and the politics of gender. Sexual transition is only one possible type of bodily transformation, and bodies that change forms vex many binaries that underpin daily life such as male/female, gay/straight, well/unhealthy, able/disabled, beautiful/ugly, or adult/child. When transformations and transitions involve trauma, illness, injury, surgery or death, bodies can become culturally and socially illegible and enter the realm of abjection or even horror. Health humanities, a recent revision of medical humanities that includes patients and other nonphysicians, provides an interdisciplinary lens through which to read such bodily transformation and its representation in public culture. The authors of the essays in the present volume situate their work in this interdisciplinary space to enable pro

• ISBN: 9780815356066
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