The Body in medical culture

Abstract

ПГне Body in Medical Culture, edited by Elizabeth Klaver, is an engaging exploration of the body as it has been represented, monitored, penetrated, and reshaped by an increasingly medicalized culture and its practices. The collection's introduction and eleven essays address an eclectic range of topics dietary prescriptions in the English Renaissance, polio narratives, sex reassignment surgery, nineteenth-century anatomical spectacles, female genital cosmetic surgery, the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, hospital humor, and more and its contributors come from a number of disciplines: medicine, medical humanities and bioethics, literature, theater, women's studies, disability studies, sociology and social policy, creative writing, and history. In its variety of topics and intellectual perspectives, this collection of essays reflects a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary field that has emerged over the past two decades to explore the intersections of medicine, technology, and culture.