Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality

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Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality

edited by Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings in artistic, literary, visual, and health discourses. The essays in this volume discuss non-normative bodies from eighteenth-century France to present-day Iran and investigate narratives of cancer, aging, anorexia, AIDS, intersexuality, transsexuality, viruses, bacteria, and vaccinations. This collection will be of key interest to faculty and students in women' studies/gender studies, cultural studies, studies of visual and material culture, medical/health humanities, disability studies, and rhetorics of science, health and medicine, and will be a useful resource for scholars across interdisciplinary fields of study.

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1 Acknowledgments 2 Foreword Rebecca Garden 3 Introduction: Bodies and Transitions in the Health Humanities Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger Part I: Medical Models, Charts, and Institutional Narratives 4 Enlightened Wax Works: Viewing the Anatomical Woman in the Viennese Josephinum Angelika Vybiral 5 Epistemological Anxiety: The Case of Michel-Anne Drouart Stephanie M. Hilger 6 Charting Intersex: Intersex Life-Writing and the Medical Record Katelyn Dykstra 7 Narrating Sex Change in Iran: Transsexuality and the Politics of Documentary Film Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi 8 Isolated Bodies, Isolated Spaces: Anorexia and Bulimia in Women's Autobiographical Narratives Barbara Gruning Part II: Invasive Influences and Corporeal Integrity 9Unseen Enemies: Neisseria, Desire, and Bodily Discourse Lisa M. DeTora 10The Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: Gendering the Rhetorics of Immunization in Public Health Discourses Jennifer A. Malkowski 11 Bacteriology and Modernity: Phenomenology, Bio-Politics, Ontology Jens Lohfert Jorgensen 12 Being-in-Alien: The Trinity of Bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017) Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Ask Nunes Part III: Aging, Decline, and Death 13 Embodied Transitions in Michel de Montaigne Nora Martin Peterson and Peter Martin 14 Witnessing Illness: Phenomenology of Photographic Self Portraiture Elizabeth Lanphier 15 Disjunction and Relationality in Terminal Illness Writing Yianna Liatsos 16 Afterword Representation as a Lens: Teaching and Researching in the Health Humanities Carl Fisher

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