Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine
Book Details
- Publisher : Harvard U.P.
- Published : 1997
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 3833
- ISBN 13 : 9780674701816
- ISBN 10 : 067470181X
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The tendency of medicine to separate self and body, and the body's means of resistance, is the focus of this book. Disembodiment is the founding gesture of medicine - the author argues - so how can medicine acknowledge the presence of the person in the objectified body? 224 pages. Illustrated.
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