Body Cultures – serie
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5 produkter
Between Self-Determination and Social Technology
Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management
Häftad, 2011
484 kr
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The book critically examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, or dialogue, developed not least by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social …
Memoirs of Well-Being
Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability
Häftad, 2016
646 kr
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As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary relationship to the pathological. This book departs …
How Genes Matter – Genetic Medicine as Subjectivisation Practices
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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Understanding the significance of genetic factors for our lives requires an analysis that goes beyond biological aspects. It is especially necessary to take into account how human beings relate to others and to themselves. Who we are is a result of social action and the ways in which human beings …
Medial Bodies Between Fiction and Faction – Reinventing Corporeality
Av Denisa Butnaru, Denisa Butnaru
Häftad, 2021
890 kr
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In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social …
Becoming Donor–Conceived – The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation
Häftad, 2022
1000 kr
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While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in …
