The distressed body : rethinking illness, imprisonment, and healing /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leder, Drew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Illness and treatment: phenomenological investigations
  • Rethinking illness: Philoctetes' exile
  • Rethinking pain: the paradoxical problem
  • Rethinking touch: how then does it heal?
  • ; Rethinking pills: fantasies, realities, possibilities
  • Rethinking clinical practice: toward a more materialistic medicine
  • Medicine and bioethics: hermeneutical reflections
  • Rethinking diagnosis: the many texts of medicine
  • Rethinking bioethics: questioning our answers, and our questions
  • Rethinking organ transplants: whose body, what body?
  • Discarded and recovered bodies: animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms: Old McDonald's had a what?
  • Rethinking imprisonment: the life-world of the incarcerated
  • Rethinking prisons: the enlightened (and endarkened) prison
  • Rethinking prisoners and animals: "they're animals" and their animals ; Rethinking humans and/as animals: the art of shape-shifting.