Fracture : adventures of a broken body

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Fracture : adventures of a broken body

Ann Oakley

Policy Press, 2007

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781861349378

内容説明

The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering of medicine and the law; the problem of ageing; and the identification of women, particularly, with bodies - from the intensely ambiguous two-in-one state of pregnancy to women's later transformation into unproductive, brittle skeletons. "Fracture" mixes personal experience (the author's and other people's) with 'facts' derived from other literatures, including the history of medicine, neurology, the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, and legal discourses on the right to life and people as victims of a greedy litigation system. The book's genre spans fiction/non-fiction, autobiography and social theory.

目次

  • Preface
  • An accident at White Creek Lodge
  • Our bodies, ourselves
  • Nervous disorder
  • Right hands
  • The daily drama of the body
  • Living corpses
  • Old bones
  • Two in one
  • The law of uncivil actions
  • Accidental bodies.
巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9781861349385

内容説明

The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating new book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering of medicine and the law; the problem of ageing; and the identification of women, particularly, with bodies - from the intensely ambiguous two-in-one state of pregnancy to women's later transformation into unproductive, brittle skeletons. "Fracture" mixes personal experience (the author's and other people's) with 'facts' derived from other literatures, including the history of medicine, neurology, the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, and legal discourses on the right to life and people as victims of a greedy litigation system. The book's genre spans fiction/non-fiction, autobiography and social theory.

目次

  • Preface
  • An accident at White Creek Lodge
  • Our bodies, ourselves
  • Nervous disorder
  • Right hands
  • The daily drama of the body
  • Living corpses
  • Old bones
  • Two in one
  • The law of uncivil actions
  • Accidental bodies.

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