Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine

Author(s) : Katherine Young

Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine

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  • 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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